A 0.6V Low Noise Current Generator for Bio-Impedance Measurements in 40nm CMOS

A viral spreading model in signed networks

In a business network, a company may be encouraged to utilise a new technique when either its cooperators or its competitors have made their adoption. Nevertheless, its willingness can be reduced as more of its competitors start applying the new technique. Inspired by the this scenario, in this thesis we proposed a viral spreading model in...

Common diesel generator protection of power systems in DP classified vessels

The closed bus-tie configuration in marine power system is a good method to help the vessel owners to decrease fuel consumption. However, when the vessel is running under closed bus-tie configuration, excitation system faults and prime mover faults can trigger a blackout on the vessel. This master thesis is to design a system to detect the...

Wafer Scale Flexible Interconnect Fabrication for Heterogeneous Integration

System in a package (SIP) allows integrated circuit (ICs) modules or other components from different suppliers and technologies to be integrated into highly functional products. This SIP could realize miniaturized and multifunctional systems enabling emerging technologies like solid-state lightening (SSL), internet of things (IOT), etc. Due to...

Automated Expansion of Statistical Shape Model Training Set for Femur

Active Shape Model (ASM) uses Statistical Shape Model (SSM) to fit the manually labeled landmark point in Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) scan and segment the femur from the MRI scan. The SSM is trained from a training set containing 275 complete femur meshes. In general, with more femur meshes in the training set, there would be more shape...

One world is not enough: Development of a software system for connecting ZigBee devices to an IoT gateway

With the dawn of the era of the Internet of Things(IoT) more everyday objects are equipped with technology that allows them to be connected to the Internet and therefore enabling (remotely) controlling or gathering data from these objects. DSP Innovation B.V. aims to respond on this emerging development by introducing a second generation IoT...

Network Lifetime Analysis of Data Collection Protocols

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...

Analyzing emotion on Twitter for user modeling

With the development of networks, social platforms play an indispensable role in people’s daily lives. As the most popular microblogging platform, Twitter has a vast amount of information available in the form of tweets shared by millions of users. Since this data stream is constantly growing, it is difficult to extract relevant information for...

A NMOS Linear Voltage Regulator for Automotive Applications

The electronization of automobiles is considered to be a revolution in automotive technology development progress. One trend for automotive electronics design is pursuing higher level integration. System level integrated circuits are needed to simplify the automotive electronics design and increase the reliability of automobiles. In this thesis,...

Wideband High Power Amplifier Design

This thesis aims for high power wideband amplifiers suitable for base station instrumentation purposes. A power combing topology is introduced, not only to achieve high power but also good input and output matching. Two kinds of broadband 3-dB quadrature couplers, which are important components in the power combing topology, are designed and...

Micro-Fluidic MEMS for Micro-Particle Filtration

Recently there has been an onset of fluidic filters fabricated using micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology. These filters, compared to conventional ones, are more accurate and precise due to the highly sophisticated techniques that are used to define and implement the separation mechanism. In order to contribute to this new field of...

Specification and Implementation of a DMA Controller in an Embedded System

The fast growing of In-Car entertainment application leads to an increasing challenge for both data computation and data communication, which are managed by the microprocessor. The thesis project is the third stage of a continuous Direct Memory Access(DMA) Controller project in NXP Semiconductors for the purpose of specifying and implementing a...

The Heston model with term structure

The purpose of this project is to extend the Heston model in order to incorporate the term structure (TS) of the implied volatility surface. This includes implementing a TS within the Heston model and its calibration to a set of market instruments. The TS Heston model with piecewise constant parameters is implemented to match the TS and the COS...

45nm Extraction and verification flow with SPACE

As CMOS technology progresses to the 45nm generation and below, lots of changes are developed on material, process and structure, such as, metal gates, high-k gate dielectrics, increased mobility, low-k wiring dielectrics, and multiple layers of circuitry (3D) . These new changes provide performance improvements and economic benefit, however...

ASIC FFT processor for MB-OFDM UWB system

The physical layer (PHY) standard of Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) Ultra Wideband (UWB) system was defined by ECMA International. In this standard, the data sampling rate from the analog-to-digital converter to the physical layer is up to 528 Msample/s. Therefore, it is a challenge to realize the physical layer...