Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical Engineering"
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Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms
(2015-04-30)
Copper plating is the metallization process of choice for modern semiconductor devices. It has proven to be a relatively inexpensive and simple process and easily adaptable to high volume manufacturing. The development of ...
An efficient methodology for the partitioning of VLSI circuits using genetic algorithm
(2014-02-12)
In the recent years, with the explosive growth in the density of VLSI circuits, efficient algorithms and methodologies for circuit partitioning have been established as an important area of computer aided design for VLSI. ...
An Efficient Transition Detector Exploiting Charge Sharing
(2014-12-09)
Transition detectors have been widely employed for online error and metastability detection, including in Better-Than-Worst-Case (BTWC) timing design of microprocessors that are designed to allow occasional timing errors. ...
Efforts towards the Detection of Perturbations in the Earth’s Magnetic Field: Design and Development of Solid State Sensor Array
(2011-05-13)
The following thesis provides a detailed description of the design and development of magneto-resistive unexploded ordinance (UXO) sensor array to detect the perturbations in the Earth’s magnetic field due to the presence ...
Electrical Breakdown of Gases in Subatmospheric Pressure
(2016-05-16)
In this study, I present my research on the breakdown phenomenon and discharge characteristics of gaseous dielectrics under DC voltages with different pressures. All of the experiments conducted utilized a point-to-point ...
Electrical Breakdown Studies of Partial Pressure Argon Under KHz Range Pulse Voltages
(2010-01-12)
Electronics operating in a partial vacuum may experience a gaseous breakdown when strong electric fields are present. The breakdown voltage for a gas decreases as the pressure decreases from atmospheric conditions and ...
Embedded Soft-Core Processor-Based Built-In Self-Test of Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2010-02-05)
The exponential growth in the number of transistors on very large scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuits (ICs), coupled with increasing device interface bandwidth and new surface mount and low profile packaging ...
Energy Efficiency and Process Variation Tolerance of 45 nm Bulk and High-k CMOS Devices
(2011-04-18)
With transistor sizes being reduced to sub 45nm ranges, we have seen an improvement in speed, better performance, and deeper integration of digital circuits. However, there has been a corresponding increase in power ...
Energy Source Lifetime Optimization for a Digital System through Power Management
(2010-11-16)
This work analyzes a typical battery powered digital electronic system and we propose a system level voltage scaling method and a functional power management method called instruction slowdown for low power. In the first ...
Energy-Efficient Designs in Cyber-Physical Systems with a Control and Optimization Approach
(2013-03-06)
In modern cyber-physical systems (CPS), new dimensions of freedom are enabled to energy efficient solutions. We first focus on the energy delivery side within the smart grid paradigm for smart, efficient and reliable energy ...
Enhanced Polymer Passivation Layer for Wafer Level Chip Scale Package
(2011-12-05)
Wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) have been used in many consumer products, and thus they are competitive in cost, size, yield, and technology. For advanced WLCSP, solder joint reliability is a major concern. ...
Enhanced Visual Navigation for Mobile Robots
(2014-05-02)
Navigation solely by vision has been a goal in robotics for many years. It is desirable for a robot to plan and navigate the same way we do naturally as humans; however computation speed, changing illumination, complex ...
Evaluating the Digital Fault Coverage for a Mixed-Signal Built-In Self-Test
(2011-11-21)
This thesis focuses on a digital Built-in Self-Test (BIST) approach to perform specification-
oriented testing of the analog portion of a mixed-signal system. The BIST utilizes a direct
digital synthesizer (DDS) based ...
Evaluation of Low Frequency Communication Techniques for Load Phase Identification
(2011-11-14)
This is a discussion on the process of implementing a system for power line
communication (PLC). A PLC system is desired as it will allow for phase identification
of the load and the transmission of data from the load ...
An Experimental Evaluation of the Delta Operator in Digital Control
(2010-07-19)
Interest in digital control systems has been on the rise over recent decades with the ever decreasing cost and increasing performance of microprocessors and the academic advancements in control theory. Although there are ...
Exploiting Boundary Scan functions of FPGA on ATE
(2015-07-21)
With the increase of integration density at chip level, the controllability and observability of defects become complicated, resulting in limited physical probe access to I/O pins. It is impractical to apply test stimulus ...
The Extent and Limitations of Correlating Measured Interharmonics and Measured Voltage Fluctuations
(2015-12-10)
Amplitude modulation is a well-known cause of voltage fluctuations resulting in luminous lamp flicker. Amplitude modulation can be more generally quantified in terms of interharmonics. The theoretical correlation between ...
Fabrication and characterization of compliant off-chip double helix and carbon nanotube interconnect
(2014-12-10)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) type double helix chip-level electrical interconnect structures are fabricated and characterized in this work. Due to their springlike structure, double helix interconnects have the ...
Fabrication of Macro Scale 3D Structures Using MEMS Technology
(2010-07-20)
The addition of Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) in the fabrication of micro-electro-mechanical-systems(MEMS) has enabled the creation of many new structures that were not previously feasible. By combining this technique ...
Fast Estimation of Specific Absorption Rate for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(2015-07-02)
Specific absorption rate (SAR) is a main safety concern in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The radio frequency (RF) power deposition and SAR level have a significant impact on RF coil and pulse design. In high field MRI, ...