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Kaandorp, Dennis (author)Temperature sensors are integrated into virtually all electronic devices. Unfortunately, the accuracy of commonly used temperature sensors greatly deteriorates in more advanced CMOS processes, thus requiring a certain amount of calibration. Thermal noise thermometry is a highly accurate niche temperature sensing method. It employs the thermal...master thesis 2020
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Padalia, Pinakin (author)Voltage references are one of the fundamental building blocks for designing any analog processing circuit. It serves as a reference for Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital to Analog Converters (DACs), power/voltage regulators and other measurement and control circuits. The performance of all these circuits cannot be better than the...master thesis 2019
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Overwater, Ramon (author)The quantum bits (qubits) at the core of any quantum computers are so fragile that quantum error correction(QEC) schemes are needed to increase their robustness and enable fault-tolerant quantum algorithms. The surface code is one of the most popular QEC schemes, but it requires the availability of an efficient decoder. While neural networks...master thesis 2019
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Zhan, Xin (author)This thesis presents the design and implementation of a low power 3rd-order loop filter and a low power, compact, high-speed inverter-based amplifier designed in 28nm HPC for a GHz sampling Σ∆ modulator.<br/>In the earlier design, the size of the pMOS in an inverter was found to be nine times larger than the nMOS which is not practical to obtain a...master thesis 2018
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Zhou, Zhihao (author)This thesis presents an ultra-low power wakeup timer locked to an RC time constant that can meet the stringent power requirements of the nodes for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The wakeup timer, fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS process, employs a bang-bang digital-intensive frequency-locked loop (DFLL). A self-biased ΣΔ digitally controlled...master thesis 2017