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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"interface circuits"”.
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MULTI-CHANNEL CDMA-LIKE CAPACITIVE SENSOR INTERFACE CIRCUITS
… advanced sensors, low-power and low-cost sensor interface circuits and efficient wireless connections. This thesis introduces a CDMA-like period modulation multi-capacitive-sensor interface circuit, which targets at the IoT applications. The proposed architecture can simultaneously read in 16 …
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The design of sensor interface circuits for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
… and high sensitivity. The development of EIS circuits with low power consumption, reduced complexity, and faster measurement times has been a particularly active area of research. However, the lengthy measurement times and the complexity of traditional EIS systems limit their adoption in …
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Design of reliable and energy-efficient high-speed interface circuits
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Interface circuits for readout and control of a micro-hemispherical resonating gyroscope
… presents the electronic control and read-out interface that has been developed to turn the μHSR into a fully functional micro-hemispherical resonating gyroscope (μHRG) capable of measuring the rate of rotation. First, the μHSR was characterized, which both enabled the design of the interface …
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A Variable Gain Direct Digital Readout System for Capacitive Inertial Sensors
High fidelity interface circuits for capacitive accelerometers make use of feedback for signal detection but these feedback systems are limited by the sense capacitance and sensitivity of the accelerometers. This problem is addressed by a variable gain delta sigma based interface circuit that time …
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Predictive transient circuit simulations of charged device model ESD events in system in package chips
… the CDM reliability of primary input/output circuits on the chip. This thesis shows that three-dimensional (3D) EM simulation based package models may not be necessary, and that reasonably accurate results can be obtained using a simple 2D package extraction method. A method to model the …
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Energy-efficient Interfaces for Vibration Energy Harvesting
… by a full-bridge rectifier. In terms of the interface circuits, most reported circuits are limited by the power efficiency, suitability to real-world vibration conditions and system volume due to large off-chip components required. The research reported in this thesis is focused on increasing …
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A microprocessor based development system for the P-50 industrial robot
… was studied in detail to facilitate design of interface circuits that transfer control of the arm to the augmented controller. All the hardware required for the controller was designed and tested. Guidelines for developing the software as well as schematics for constructing the remaining …
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Towards Single-Chip Nano-Systems
… and pass them to complex instrumentation interface circuits for signal detection and processing. The highlight of this research is to investigate fabrication technologies to integrate such precision equipment with nano-sensors on a single complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …
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Highly Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Systems With Emerging Nonvolatile Memories
… large scale integration: (a) the analog/digital interface circuits dominate the power and area in such mixed-signal designs; (b) they are highly customized and can only compute a class of neural network models once developed; (c) non-ideal device properties largely forfeit the benefit in terms of …
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ΜΕΤΡΗΣΗ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΩΝ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΙΟΝΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΙΝΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΕΙΣ ΜΕ ΔΙΑΤΑΞΕΙΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΜΕΝΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΜΙΚΡΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΗ
… OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE UNITS AND HOMEBUILT INTERFACE CIRCUITS. THE FIRST SYSTEM, CONTROLLED BY AN ALTAIR 8800B MICROCOMPUTER IS USED FOR AN AUTOMATED, RAPID EVALUATION OF CERTAIN CRUSIAL QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ION-SELECTIVE ELECTRODES. THE SECOND SYSTEM, CONTROLLED BY AN AMSTRAD CPC-6128 …
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Modeling and Synthesis of Combinational Logic Circuits: A Power Dissipation Perspective
… very rapidly. As the complexity of VLSI circuits increases fast, the automation of the VLSI design has become very crucial not only to reduce design time and cost, but also to improve design quality. There are several criteria to measure design quality: area, delay, testability and power …
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Design space exploration of photonic interconnects
… models that capture the behavior of electrical interface circuits and their interactions with optical devices. To animate these models in the context of a full system, we contribute DSENT, a novel physical modeling framework capable of estimating the costs of generalized digital electronics, …
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Broadband Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Vibration Suppression Using Nonlinear Mechanisms
… absorber. With alternative and direct current interface circuits, targeted energy transfer, an energy localized branch and their influence on the dynamic and electrical performance are revealed experimentally and numerically. Also, approximate methods are used to reveal the underlying mechanism …
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BOOLEAN AND BRAIN-INSPIRED COMPUTING USING SPIN-TRANSFER TORQUE DEVICES
… locked SHE-STOs and the associated CMOS interface circuits can be suitable for robust and energy efficient associative computing and pattern matching.
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Transient stability assessment of hybrid distributed generation using computational intelligence approaches
… distributed generations, power electronic interface circuits, advanced controllers etc., the present power system network is now more complex than in the past. Consequently, the recent rate of blackouts recorded in some parts of the world indicates that the power system is stressed. The …
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Energy processing circuits for low-power applications
… improve the energy efficiency of electronic circuits. A critical part of these energy conscious systems are the energy processing and power delivery circuits that interface with the energy sources and provide conditioned voltage and current levels to the load circuits. These energy processing …