Communication Architecture for a Hydraulic Simulation System

HedoN is a high-tech electronic development and production company that tasked a group of six TU Delft Electrical Engineering bachelor students to design a simulation system for hydraulic plants. This simulation system consist out of a central Hydraulic Simulation Unit (HSU) that runs a hydraulics simulation and controls various electrical...

Implementation of in-situ monitoring techniques for power reduction in smart sensors

Nowadays, smart sensors are widely used in a variety of application domains, such as telecommunication, health care, cars, mobile phones, smart cities. Because of limited battery capacity, low-power design is required for smart sensors. Low-voltage operation is a key leverage to reduce power consumption in smart sensors. However, uncertainties...

A Framework for Designing and Testing the Digital Signal Processing unit of a Pulsar Based Navigation System

Navigation systems using pulsar signals have been of great interest ever since the discovery of pulsars in 1967 and various studies were carried out ever since to determine the feasibility of such systems. The successful working of a navigation system using pulsar would mean that spacecraft can maneuver through the deep space with very little...

Modeling and Extraction of Through-Silicon Vias

3D is entering the world of Integrated Circuits. While interconnects have always been three-dimensional, the actual silicon inside an IC was essentially still planar. The introduction of the Through-Silicon Via changes that, by allowing connections to be made from one side of a die through its silicon substrate to the other side of the die, so...

Fundamentals, Specifications, Architecture and Hardware Towards a Navigation System Based on Radio Pulsars

Pulsar based navigation is a novel area of research, and might once offer the possibility to man of safely traveling distances much beyond Earth. Recently, there has been work on a receiver tracking algorithm that makes use of X-ray pulsar signals. However, a system based on this would not find use on celestial bodies where an atmosphere blocks...

System performance analysis and fixed-point architecture of a gradient-based optical flow algorithm

Optical flow algorithms present a way for computers to estimate motion from the real world. Applications like cloud motion, surveillance and robot eyesight are examples of this. The focus of existing research is mainly on either fast, but poor solutions, or slow but good solutions. In this thesis an approach to improve performance through...

Design and Realization of a Digital Baseband Subsystem of Wakeup Receiver for Wireless Sensor Networks

In the development of wireless sensor networks, the lifetime of a sensor node is always a key design consideration. Since the battery in a sensor node can usually not be recharged or changed, power management is an effective way to extend the network lifetime. The wireless transceiver, also regarded as the ‘main radio’, is a relatively power...

Design of a Portable and Customizable Microprocessor for Rapid System Prototyping

Due to the increasing number of processors which are integrated in System On Chips (SOCs) the need for robust, highly configurable processors emerged. Preliminary research showed that commercial processors are not suited for many research projects due to the fact that they are closed source and they can not be modified. Open source processors on...

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...

SRAM power reduction: An ultra-low-power SRAM architecture in 45nm technology