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Application of Mobility Models to Collaborative Search and Rescue Robotics
(2011-05-26)
This thesis addresses the challenges of using small, low-cost robotic nodes with limited processing capabilities in collaborative search and rescue. Mobility models tailored specifically to the mobility patterns of such ...
Development of Wireless Magnetoresistive Sensor Network for Unexploded Ordnance and Landmine Detection
(2011-05-06)
This thesis summarizes the effort toward developing a passive/active magnetoresistive (MR) sensor array for unexploded ordnance (UXO) realized with wireless sensor network technology. In recent years, the rapid development ...
A Novel Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) Fabrication Method
(2011-07-18)
The Through Silicon Via (TSV) is expected to be the future of 3-D chip stacking technology for electronic devices. The structure of the TSV interconnect is developed by first etching deep vias into the surface of a wafer, ...
Analysis and Implementation of Built-In Self-Test for Block Random Access Memories in Virtex-5 Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2011-07-18)
In order to ensure the proper operation of the embedded Block Random Access Memories (BRAMs) in Xilinx Virtex-5 Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) a dependable and resource efficient test is needed so that the integrity ...
Methods for Improving Generalization and Convergence in Artificial Neural Classifiers
(2011-08-26)
Artificial neural networks have proven to be quite powerful for solving nonlinear classification problems. However, the complex error surfaces encountered in such problems often contain local minima in which gradient based ...
Thick Film Packaging Techniques for 300°C Operation
(2011-08-11)
Geothermal well logging and instrumentation applications require electronics capable of 300°C operation. SiC device technology enables the design and fabrication of analog circuits that can operate at these temperatures. ...
High Energy Gamma Radiation Effects on Commercially Available Silicon Carbide Power JFET Transistors
(2011-11-21)
An investigation of high power commercially available semiconductors made with compounds such as, silicon carbide (SiC), are being investigated for space applications and other harsh environments. The research involves ...
Wireless Mesh Routing in Smart Utility Networks
(2011-11-18)
Today’s world is more dependent on electrical power than ever. This dependency will increase manifold in the near future with more systems being computerized and a
plethora of new electronic devices emerging for household, ...
Path Delay Tuning for Performance Gain in the face of Random Manufacturing Variations
(2011-04-18)
Moore's laws predictions of transistor densities doubling every two years in an integrated circuit has held true for the past fifty years, and is predicted to hold true in the coming few years. But as technologies shrink ...
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 ...