Electronic Systems Engineering (ESE): Recent submissions
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Design, Analysis And Characterization Of Torsional MEMS Varactor
(2010-10-11)Varactors form an important part of many communication circuits. They are utilized in oscillators, tunable matching networks, tunable filters and phase-shifters. This thesis deals with the design, analysis, characterization ... -
Knowledge Representation Framework For A Web-based Intelligent Tutoring System For Engineering Courses
(2010-10-08)Tutoring is one of the most effective instruction methods. Computer as an Intelligent Tutor is an area of research since many decades. Technology advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used ... -
Modeling And Design Of A Solar Hybrid Desalination System With Pressure Modulation
(2010-08-30)Shortage of drinking water in most parts of the world has been a growing concern in recent times. The situation has been getting worse in underdeveloped and developing countries due to sudden explosion in population growth ... -
Studies In Micro Interconnections In Printed Wiring Board
(2010-08-30)Trend towards downsizing the product size and at the same time to bring more functionality in electronic products, demands electrically interconnecting several miniaturized electronic components with high counts of I\Os ... -
Reduced Switch Count Multi-Level Inverter Structures With Common Mode Voltage Elimination And DC-Link Capacitor Voltage Balancing For IM Drives
(2010-07-29)Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. Voltage operation above semiconductor device limits, lower common mode voltages, ... -
Joint Congestion Control, Routing And Distributed Link Scheduling In Power Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks
(2010-07-29)We study the problem of joint congestion control, routing and MAC layer scheduling in multi-hop wireless mesh networks, where the nodes in the network are subjected to energy expenditure rate constraints. As wireless ... -
Sub-Threshold Slope Modeling & Gate Alignment Issues In Tunnel Field Effect Transistor
(2010-07-26)The Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with sub-60mV/decade Sub-threshold slope and extremely high ION/IOFF ratio has attracted enough attention for low standby power (LSTP) applications where the battery life is very ... -
Potential-Based Routing In Wireless Sensor Networks
(2010-07-19)Recent advances in VLSI technology, and wireless communication have enabled the development of tiny, low-cost sensor nodes that communicate over short distances. These sensor nodes, which consist of sensing, data processing, ... -
Design, Modeling And Control Of Shape Memory Alloy Based Poly Phase Motor
(2010-07-13)In this thesis, a new Poly Phase Motor (rotary actuator) based on the Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is presented. Details of Design, Modeling, Characterization, Realization and Control of Poly Phase SMA Motor are presented. ... -
Impact Of Body Center Potential On The Electrostatics Of Undoped Body Multi Gate Transistors : A Modeling Perspective
(2010-07-09)Undoped body multi gate (MG) Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) are appearing as replacements for single gate bulk MOSFET in forthcoming sub-45nm technology nodes. It is therefore extremely necessary ... -
Key Distribution In Wireless Sensor Networks
(2010-06-09)In the last few years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become a very actively researched area. The impetus for this spurt of interest were developments in wireless technologies and low-cost VLSI, that made it possible ... -
A Novel Higher Order Noise Shaping Sigma-Delta Modulator
(2010-06-04)The thesis focuses on a higher order noise-shaping Δ ADC architecture which employs filtered quantization error as a dither signal. Furthermore, the work studies implementation challenges using Switched-Capacitor and ... -
Generation Of 12-Sided And 18-Sided Polygonal Voltage Space Vectors For Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drives By Cascading Conventional Two-Level Inverters
(2010-06-01)Multi-level inverters play a significant role in high power drive systems for induction motors. Interest in multi-level inverters started with the three-level, neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter. Now there are many ... -
Battery Buffered Stiff Micro Grid Structure For A Variable Speed Slip Ring Induction Machine Based Wind Generation System
(2010-04-12)Electric power has become a basic necessity of human life. The major share of electric power comes from fossil fuel which results in global warming and pollution. A share of generated power comes from nuclear power which ... -
Impact Of Energy Quantization On Single Electron Transistor Devices And Circuits
(2010-04-06)Although scalingof CMOS technology has been predicted to continue for another decade, novel technological solutions are required to overcome the fundamental limitations of the decananometer MOS transistors. Single Electron ... -
Computer Assisted Evaluation Of Student Performance In An Engineering Course
(2009-04-29)Increasing enrollment of students and declining availability of qualified and experienced faculty are leading to increased assessment loads of the existing faculty. Moreover, the assessment techniques are changing drastically ... -
System Dynamics Modeling Of Stylized Features Of Stock Markets
(2009-04-16)The common theme throughout the thesis is to explore the possibility of using a single framework, namely the systems theory framework, in modeling a few stylized features of a financial market. A systems theoretic model ... -
Testing Of Analog Circuits - Built In Self Test
(2009-03-19)On chip Built In Self Test (BIST) is a cost-effective test methodology for highly complex VLSI devices like Systems On Chip (SoC). This work deals with cost-effective BIST methods and Test Pattern Generation (TPG) schemes ... -
Modelling Of Switched Mode Power Converters : A Bond Graph Approach
(2009-03-04)Modelling and simulation are essential ingredients of the analysis and design process in power electronics. It helps a design engineer gain an increased understanding of circuit operation. Accordingly, for a set of ... -
Current-Mode Techniques In The Synthesis And Applications Of Analog And Multi-Valued Logic In Mixed Signal Design
(2008-10-07)The development of modern integration technologies is normally driven by the needs of digital CMOS circuit design. Rapid progress in silicon VLSI technologies has made it possible to implement multi-function and high ...