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Van Raamsdonk, G.J. (author), Visser, E.R.A. (author)
De GonioTrainer is een draagbaar apparaat dat schaatsers helpt bij het verbeteren van hun schaatstechniek. In deze thesis wordt een manier besproken om het huidige prototype van de GonioTrainer te verbeteren en real-time terugkoppeling te geven naar de schaatser, middels een trilmotor die draadloos wordt aangestuurd. Belangrijke eigenschappen...
bachelor thesis 2015
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Liu, Y. (author)
This thesis demonstrates a novel displacement sensor with photonic structure a micro ring resonator with a micro cantilever. This device uses the working principle of micro ring resonator and transfer the mechanical signal into optical signal. The goal of this project is to design, fabricate and measure such a device. Fabrication process is not...
master thesis 2014
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Van Teijlingen, W. (author)
Designers are confronted with high time-to-market pressure and an increasing demand for computational power. As a result, they are required to identify as early as possible the quality of a specification for an intended technology. The designer needs to know if this specification can be improved, and at what cost. Specification trade-offs are...
master thesis 2014
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Ramachandrappa Venkatesh, M. (author)
Solid State Lighting (SSL) is one of the prominent light sources for future lighting applications with benefits such as high energy savings, long lifetimes and high efficiency. The main drawback in solid state lighting system is that the total initial cost of the system is high for large scale production. Packaging and electronics components in...
master thesis 2014
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Wu, L. (author)
In recent years, wireless personal area network (WPAN) applications have triggered the needs for low-cost and low-power PLLs which also provide good performance. All-digital phased-locked loops (ADPLLs) are preferred over their analog counterparts in nanoscale CMOS technology due to their flexibility, configurability, small area and easy...
master thesis 2014
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Andronikidis, G. (author)
Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures (ERA) is a project with the objective to design a platform that combines reconfigurable computing and network elements which can adapt on-the-fly their composition, organization and even instruction-set architectures in an effort to provide the best possible trade-offs in performance and power for the given...
master thesis 2014
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He, Y. (author)
This thesis discusses the basic principles, circuit implementation and measurements of an inverter-based capacitive-sensor interface based on period modulation. The interface employs an inverter-based OTA and comparator to increase the current efficiency. Moreover, it applies new circuit techniques to reduce the die size and to reduce noise. A...
master thesis 2014
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Blutman, K. (author)
This work introduces a low-power Cortex-M0+ based computing platform for battery-powered, embedded applications. Voltage stacking is used to save power by recycling charge through a power domain between 0V and Vdd, and a power domain stacked on top of it between Vdd and 2Vdd. The technique enables connecting chips of the future directly to the...
master thesis 2014
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Van Breukelen, S. (author)
Content creation and content sharing have become part of our daily lives. With modern electronics, creating and sharing content has become very convenient, but this convenience has come at a price. Devices like smartphones that enable us to easily share content, are costly and complex. Devices like USB flash drives, on the other hand, are low...
master thesis 2014
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Padmanabharao, P.K. (author)
Next Generation Sequencing technologies have had a tremendous impact on our understanding of DNA and its role in living organisms. The cost of DNA sequencing has decreased drastically over the past decade, leading the way for personalised genomics. Sequencers provide millions of fragments of DNA (termed short reads), which have to be aligned...
master thesis 2014
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Karunanithi, V. (author)
The fast growing interest in nano-satellite development and the use of nano-satellite for complex missions has led to an increase in the downlink data-rate. The availability of free bands (amateur frequency bands: VHF and UHF) is getting limited and more challenging to do the frequency coordination. This can be attributed to the surge in number...
master thesis 2014
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Timmerman, J. (author)
The Microthrust project aims to deliver an efficient and scalable electric propulsion system for very small form factor satellites. For this aim, a thruster chip (THC) is being developed at EPFL, Switzerland, that uses a strong electric field to accelerate charged particles from hollow ‘needles’. The particles are emitted from the propellant, a...
master thesis 2014
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Arutchelvan, G. (author)
CMOS scaling over the years has brought great improvements in the computational speed, density and cost of microprocessors. However, scaling is approaching its limits owing to the difficulty in reducing the supply voltage with conventional MOSFETs having at best a subthreshold swing of 60mv/decade. A possible alternative is Tunnel FETs (TFETs)...
master thesis 2014
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Chen, P. (author)
The technology scaling favors the Digital PLLs, which is reconfigurable. In the traditional fractional-N ADPLL, whether counter-based or divider based, DCO and TDC are the main two power consuming blocks. Modifying the phase detection part based on phase prediction makes the architecture more energy-efficient. The new architecture leads to the...
master thesis 2014
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De Jong, M.D. (author)
This thesis describes FPGA-accelerated Monte-Carlo integration using adaptive stratified sampling. Monte-Carlo integration can be used to determine the value of integrals that have no closed form solution. In this work, the FPGA-accelerated design is used to determine the price of different types of financial options. The considered options are...
master thesis 2014
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Li, S. (author)
When a sensor network is deployed, we fundamentally care about three main outcomes: to obtain as much data as possible (high delivery rate), to obtain data as fast as possible (low latency), and to obtain data for as long as possible (long lifetime). This last metric, called network lifetime, is of great importance and has been widely...
master thesis 2014
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Zhang, D. (author)
Three-dimensional (3D) range detectors enabling 3D computer vision is now popular in automotive industry. With their participation, automobile safety has been further enhanced, autonomous driving has become realizable. Time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) technique utilizing complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) single photon...
master thesis 2014
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Hofmann, J.A. (author)
The ability to simulate brain neurons in real-time using biophysically-meaningful models is a critical pre-requisite grasping human brain behavior. By simulating neurons' behavior, it is possible, for example, to reduce the need for in-vivo experimentation, to improve artificial intelligence and to replace damaged brain parts in patients. A...
master thesis 2014
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Gopalakrishna, N. (author)
Execution time analysis forms an important part of design space and hardware architectural exploration for hard real-time systems. Some approaches for execution time analysis require prerequisite knowledge of synchronous data flows or timed automata employed in model checkers. This is unsuitable for industry-level use as easy approaches without...
master thesis 2014
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Reda, M.B. (author)
The ?-VEX processor is a parameterized reconfigurable Very Large Instruction Word (VLIW) softcore processor. It can be reconfigured in the issue-width, number and type of functional units (FUs), width of memory buses and number of registers in the multi- ported register file. The current design of the ?-VEX processor supports single cluster...
master thesis 2014
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