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Towards an Energy-Efficient Inductively-Powered Ultra-High Frequency Pulsed Neurostimulator

Electrical stimulation has emerged as a promising therapeutic modality for the treatment of various neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, chronic pain, epilepsy, and depression. In addition, recent studies have provided evidence supporting the effectiveness of electrical stimulation as a treatment option for patients with chronic...

An Error Feedback Noise Shaping SAR ADC

Analog-to-digital converters are important blocks in any electronic system which act as a bridge between analog signals and digital processors. The conventional SAR ADC employs a binary search algorithm and has emerged as the most suitable solution for low-power applications, due to its excellent power efficiency. The proposed ADC architecture...

A Compact Resistor-Based Temperature Sensor

Smart temperature sensors can be used for the temperature compensation of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) frequency references. From the different types of CMOS temperature sensors, resistor-based sensors are currently the most energy-efficient. However, compared with bipolar transistor (BJT)-based temperature sensors, resistors suffer from...

Experimental Characterization of a Novel Small-Scale Natural Circulation Loop Methanol Synthesis Reactor

The present-day industrialized nations reached high standards of living using cheap fossil fuel energy. The high CO<sub style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, sans-serif;">2</sub> emissions as a result of burning these fuels over the years have started outpacing the natural carbon...

Living Roads

This master thesis studies the struggles and opportunities of highways in dense populated areas. It comes up with technological solutions for the derived challenges and presents them in an integrated solution.

Energy Efficient Branch Prediction for the Cell BE SPU

We propose a power e?cient branch predictor for the Cell SPU, which normally depends on compiler inserted hint instructions to predict taken branches. We designed four predictors all using Branch History Table (BHT) to store the Branch Target Address and the prediction, which is computed using a bimodal counter. The Simple Bimodal Predictor (SBP...