Charge-Sampling DTC based Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop with Background DTC Gain Calibration

Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are ubiquitous in many RF applications such as frequency synthesizers in wireline and wireless transceivers. In this project, a charge-sampling PLL has been designed, which employs a charge-domain sub-sampling phase detector. The high gain of the phase detector helps suppress the in-band phase noise, while the lowered...

Design of an Active N-Path Filter for 5G mm-wave Receivers

Receivers for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) 5G, with the ability to detect a low-power desired signal, in the vicinity of large power blockers, require highly linear circuitry with a large power consumption. Suppressing the out-of-band blockers reduces this power consumption. N-path filters (NPFs) have recently been used to reject interferers in...

Digital Signal Processing for a Wireless ECG Device: Wireless Electrocardiogram (WiECG)

The goal of the WiECG project is to create a prototype device that makes it possible to perform a 12-lead ECG measurement on patients without wires from the patient to a monitor. The solution consists of a transmitter and receiver, one of which is close or on the patients body and the other is connected to a monitor.<br/><br/>This thesis...

Design of a DAC-based Cryo-CMOS 51.2 Gb/s PAM4 Wireline Transmitter

With the current advancements in quantum computing moving more circuitry into the cryogenic chamber there is a need for high-speed connectivity between the cryogenic and room temperature environment. Studies conducted to date have achieved high-speed links of multiple Gb/s utilizing a single CMOS chip at room temperature, yet a Cryo-CMOS...

Optical Calibration System: Subproject within the ADome project

In the ADome project, a truncated icosahedron is used as a frame for multiple antenna nodes. These nodes are used to measure the radiation pattern of an antenna-under-test located in the center of this dome. Since these antennas can be placed anywhere in the ADome by the user, a calibration system is necessary to find the spherical coordinates...

ADome: Implementing CAN in a multi­sensor measurement setup

This thesis focuses on improving the readout of the ADome by implementing MCUs at each antenna probe, enabling local sampling and memory storage. The serial communication protocols CAN, SPI and I2C are considered and compared with one another. Ultimately, CAN is decided due to its robustness and simplicity which make the system cheap and ensures...

5G mm-Wave Downconverter: Architecture for the Antenna Dome System

The commercialization of millimeter wave frequencies for the 5G New Radio standard requires time and cost -effective testing equipment. The over-the-air measurement setup developed at the TU Delft (ADome) is able to reduce measurement time, by positioning multiple fixed sensing nodes around the antenna-under-test. To expand the system...