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High-Performance SAR-Assisted Hybrid ADC with Time Domain Signal Processing
(2020-02-19)
This dissertation presents types of basic and advanced ADC architectures and raises a high-performance hybrid ADC solution which achieves comparable performance compared with many state-of-the-art ADC architectures. The ...
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 ...
Low-Power, High-Performance Frequency Dividers for a Phase-Locked Loop
(2020-03-16)
The world embraces the dawn of 5G implementation, and there is much work to be done. Companies, researchers, engineers, and many more posterities of people are pressing into high-frequency ranges, which presents a plethora ...
Novel Fault Injection Attacks on Logic Locking using ATPG
(2020-07-31)
The outsourcing of the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits (ICs) in the current horizontal semiconductor integration flow includes untrusted entities that have posed various security threats, such as overproduction ...
Micromachined Isolators for Shock and Vibration Reliability of MEMS Sensors: Fabrication, Damping, and Integration
(2020-11-20)
This dissertation details the design, FEA simulation, fabrication, and testing of three variations of micromachined vibration isolators (MVIs). The vibration isolators serve as low pass filters to attenuate high frequency ...
A Practical Quaternary FPGA Architecture Using Floating Gate Memories
(2020-05-11)
A new quaternary FPGA (QFPGA) architecture based on floating-gate memory elements is presented and analyzed. While technology scaling has delivered substantial FPGAperformance, consumer demands grow beyond what binary ...
Interpretable Deep Learning for Diagnosis of Human Brain Disorders using Neuroimaging
(2020-11-17)
Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in neuroimaging research for the diagnosis of brain disorders and understanding of human brain. They are complex data driven systems that work in a black-box fashion once ...
Map Coverage for Mobile Robot Implemented with Reinforcement Learning
(2020-06-22)
This dissertation introduces a measure of navigation complexity for complete coverage path planning (CCPP). It also introduces a novel approach to CCPP using reinforcement learning (RL) to enable a mobile robot to cover ...
A Hybrid Retrodirective Array Based on Delay-Locked Loop Hybrid Phase Conjugators
(2020-06-15)
This dissertation discusses the design, construction, and characterization of a new Hybrid Retrodirective Array (HRA) as a possible beamforming technology for 5G wireless communication networks. A Delay-Locked Loop based ...
Optical Waveguide Sensor based on Gratings and Metamaterials for Refractive Index Sensing
(2020-07-14)
Optical waveguide sensors based on gratings and metamaterials for refractive index (RI) sensing are introduced in this Ph.D. dissertation. A waveguide is a structure which can guide light based on total internal reflection. ...