Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering"
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Deep Learning-based Load Forecasting and Monitoring in the Smart Grid
(2021-12-01)
With the rapid advances in sensing and acquisition, transmission, storage, computing, and analytics, the era of big data has come. Many advanced data analytic techniques, especially machine learning and deep learning ...
Delay Test Scan Flip-flop (DTSFF) Design and Its Applications for Scan Based Delay Testing
(2007-12-15)
Scan based delay testing is currently mostly implemented using launch-on-capture (LOC) delay tests. Launch-on-shift (LOS) tests are generally more effective, achieving higher fault coverage with significantly fewer test ...
Design and Analysis of Low-Cost X-Ray Imaging System Incorporating Add-On Mouse Rotation System in Pre-Clinical Research
(2022-07-21)
Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential tool in diagnostic and sports medicine. It is able to generate a three-dimensional rendering that can be used to interrogate a given region or desired structure from any ...
Design and Development of a GPS Intermediate Frequency and IMU Data Acquisition System for Advanced Integrated Architectures
(2006-12-15)
Advanced levels of GPS and INS integration, including Deeply Integrated and Ultra-
Tightly Coupled, have been reported to provide significant gains in anti-jamming capa-
bility and reduced susceptibility to loss of GPS ...
Design and Implementation of a Software Defined Radio Receiver for AM Band
(2007-08-15)
Since the mid-1990s, the radio industry has actively focused on implementing more and more radio functions in the digital domain. This has been furthered by availability of high speed, high performance data converters and ...
Design and Implementation of Digital Controllers for Buck and Boost Converters Using Linear and Nonlinear Control Methods
(2006-08-15)
Issues in the design and implementation of digital controllers for a buck converter and a boost converter using linear and nonlinear control methods were investigated in this dissertation. The small signal models of the ...
Design and Implementation of High Performance Pipelined SAR ADC for Wireless Communications
(2021-04-16)
As the process keeps scaling down, successive approximation register (SAR) architecture becomes an attractive candidate in low-power, moderate-speed A/D converter (ADC) due its mostly digital operation. For high speed ...
Design and Noise Analysis of Coupled Ring Oscillators
(2021-11-30)
This dissertation analyzes the phase noise in standard differential ring oscillator due to various noise sources by using a simple physical model. Employing the open loop noise analysis, the oscillator’s output noise at ...
Design and Optimization of Nano-scaled Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
(2005-08-15)
In this work, we explore the design and optimization of nano-scaled SiGe HBTs. The cutoff frequency fT and the maximum oscillation frequency fmax are optimized towards Terahertz.
We first start with intrinsic device designs ...
Design and Simulation of Cryogenic Test Circuits
(2016-07-27)
New technologies are being introduced in anticipation of the end of Moore’s Law, such as quantum computing, in hopes that the speed gains from the different topologies will offset the increase in size of the devices. Fast ...
Design of a Geotextile Roadbed Antenna to Create a Wireless Highway Network
(2007-12-15)
Incorporation of antennas into geotextile fabric to create a roadbed reinforcement with electronic transmission capabilities may find use in expanding communications infrastructures. The design of a model transmission ...
Design of an Outdoor Wireless Local Area Network and Antenna Analysis
(2006-08-15)
One of the ongoing projects of the Engineering Network Services (ENS) at Auburn University (AU) is to design and implement an outdoor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). This project involved using Access Points (AP) that ...
Design of Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer for Wireless Applications
(2005-08-15)
Direct Digital Synthesis can be practically defined as a means of generating highly accurate and harmonically pure digital representations of signals. High speed DDS presents an attractive alternative to use of Phase locked ...
Design of High Performance Radio-Frequency Phase-Locked Loops
(2018-07-26)
Phase-locked loop, or PLL, is widely used in different areas of electronic system such as wireless transceivers which use PLL to generate carrier signals. Nowadays, the requirement for ever increasing data rate puts more ...
Design of MEMS-Based Tunable Antennas, Organic Transistors and MEMS-Based Organic Control Circuits
(2008-05-15)
The advent of precision three-dimensional micromachining technologies in the last couple of decades has seen the birth of an exciting and potentially revolutionary field called Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). ...
Design, Fabrication, and Dynamic Modeling of a Printed Circuit Based MEMS Accelerometer
(2007-05-15)
A MEMS capacitive-type accelerometer fabricated using printed circuit processing techniques is presented. A Kapton polymide film is used as the structural layer for fabricating the MEMS accelerometer. The accelerometer ...
Design, Testing, and Simulation of a Low-Cost, Light-Weight, Low-g IMU for the Navigation of an Indoor Blimp
(2006-05-15)
In this thesis we develop an IMU for the purpose of navigating an autonomous indoor blimp. Due to the unique system properties of an indoor blimp, the developed IMU is light-weight and is capable of measuring slow rotational ...
Designing an Anisotropic Noise Filter for Measuring Critical Dimension and Line Edge Roughness from SEM Images
(2018-04-23)
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is often employed in inspecting patterns transferred through a lithographic process. A typical inspection is to measure the critical dimension (CD) and line edge roughness (LER) of ...
Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot-Trailer System for UXO Detection
(2007-08-15)
The process of finding and removing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from contaminated sites is an expensive and time consuming task. In this thesis, an autonomous mobile robot-trailer system is developed for this purpose. It ...
Digital Simulation and Recreation of a Vacuum Tube Guitar Amp
(2020-04-14)
This thesis presents the process of designing, building, and testing a system that will be referred to herein as the Digital Guitar Amplifier. The Digital Guitar Amplifier is a real time digital audio signal processing ...