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Heerkens Thijssen, Oscar (author)A better understanding in the biological clock is important to help reduce stress on shift workers. Moreover, in the field of medication it will allow for more effective treatments as certain types of medication are more effective when applied at certain moments in the 24-hour cycle. The mammalian biological clock is controlled by a tiny area in...master thesis 2019
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Hashemi, M. (author), Zhou, Lei (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author)This article presents the first application of a digital-intensive intrinsically linear digitally controlled class-E technique in a Doherty configuration. By careful nonlinear segmentation and multiphase RF-clocking along with overdrive-voltage control and automatic duty-cycle correction, it is shown that even the nonlinearities related to...journal article 2019
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Overman, Jeroen (author)An Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is being developed at TOPIC Embed- ded Systems to track equipment in hospitals. The system should prevent the loss of equipment en make procedures more efficient. The IPS will con- sist of anchors and tags. Anchors are the radios that form an infrastructure in the building to localise tags that are placed on...master thesis 2019
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Torres Di Zeo, Alvaro (author)The availability of photolithography machines is key in the semiconductor industry, as downtime generally incurs in immense economic loss. Time to market is also very important for suppliers of photolithography systems, such as ASML. Photolithography machines include numerous measurement systems that are frequently used for qualification and...master thesis 2019
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Kazaz, T. (author), Coutino, Mario (author), Janssen, G.J.M. (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), van der Veen, A.J. (author)Synchronization and ranging in internet of things (IoT) networks are challenging due to the narrowband nature of signals used for communication between IoT nodes. Recently, several estimators for range estimation using phase difference of arrival (PDoA) measurements of narrowband signals have been proposed. However, these estimators are based...conference paper 2019
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Kotti, Sofia (author)Clock synchronization among the nodes of a wireless acoustic sensor network (WASN) is a significant issue that affects the performance of multi-channel noise reduction schemes. Since independent sensors are utilized, each accompanied by its internal clock, clock offsets are inevitable, even if the mismatch in the sampling frequencies is...master thesis 2018
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Wang, Kan (author), Khodabandeh, Amir (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Nadarajah, Nandakumaran (author)The real-time kinematic precise point positioning (PPP-RTK) technique enables integer ambiguity resolution by providing singlereceiver users with information on the satellite phase biases next to the standard PPP corrections. Using undifferenced and uncombined observations, rank deficiencies existing in the design matrix need to be eliminated to...journal article 2018
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Pourmousavian, Naser (author), Kuo, Feng Wei (author), Siriburanon, Teerachot (author), Babaie, M. (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)This paper proposes an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) fractional-N all-digital PLL (ADPLL) powered from a single 0.5-V supply. While its digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) runs directly at 0.5 V, an internal switched-capacitor dc-dc converter ``doubles'' the supply voltage to all the digital circuitry and particularly regulates the time-to...journal article 2018
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Karmakar, S. (author), Gonen, B. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Van Veldhoven, Robert (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)Micro-power ADCs with high linearity and dynamic range (DR) are required in several applications, such as smart sensors, biomedical imaging, and portable instrumentation. Since the signals of interest are then often small (tens of μν) and slow (<1kHz BW), such ADCs should also exhibit low offset and flicker noise. Noise-shaping SAR [1] and...conference paper 2018
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Ronchini Ximenes, A. (author), Padmanabhan, P. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author)Direct time-of-flight (dTOF) image sensors require accurate and robust timing references for precise depth calculation. On-chip timing references are well-known and understood, but for imaging systems where several thousands of pixels require seamless references, area and power consumption limit the use of more traditional synthesizers, such as...journal article 2018
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Karmakar, S. (author), Gonen, B. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), van Veldhoven, Robert (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This paper presents a dynamic zoom analog-to-digital converter for use in low-bandwidth (&lt;1 kHz) instrumentation applications. It employs a high-speed asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) ADC that dynamically updates the references of a fully differential &#x0394; &#x03A3; ADC. Compared to previous zoom ADCs,...journal article 2018
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Chen, Peng (author), Huang, Xiongchuan (author), Chen, Y. (author), Wu, Lianbo (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)To characterize an on-chip programmable delay in a low-cost and high-resolution manner, a built-in self-test based on a first-order &#x0394;&#x03A3; time-to-digital converter with self-calibration is proposed and implemented in TSMC 28-nm CMOS. The system is self-contained, and only one digital clock is needed for the measurements. A...journal article 2018
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Akter, S. (author), Sehgal, R.K. (author), van der Goes, Frank (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Bult, K. (author)This paper presents a closed-loop class-AB residue amplifier for pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). It consists of a push-pull structure with a ``split-capacitor'' biasing circuit that enhances its power efficiency. The amplifier is inherently quite linear, and so incomplete settling can be used to save power while still...journal article 2018
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Xie, Y. (author), Janssen, G.J.M. (author), van der Veen, A.J. (author)A clock synchronization scheme is crucial for obtaining accuracy in time-based positioning systems. Existing clock synchronization schemes are mostly based on a simplified linear clock model, which unfortunately have a poor long-term synchronization accuracy. Assuming a two-way time transfer protocol, we propose a novel clock synchronization...conference paper 2016
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Chepuri, S.P. (author)In today's society, we are flooded with massive volumes of data in the order of a billion gigabytes on a daily basis from pervasive sensors. It is becoming increasingly challenging to locally store and transport the acquired data to a central location for signal/data processing (i.e., for inference). To alleviate these problems, it is evident...doctoral thesis 2016
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Dirkx, D. (author)Measurements of the motion of natural (and artificial) bodies in the solar system provide key input on their interior structre and properties. Currently, the most accurate measurements of solar system dynamics are performed using radiometric tracking systems on planetary missions, providing range measurement with an accuracy in the order of 1 m....doctoral thesis 2015
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Bijwaard, M. (author)Typically in synchronous digital systems time-based tasks are synchronized using hard-wired clock distribution networks. However in the growing application of large (wireless) sensor networks it is not always feasible to connect each sensor node to a hard-wired clock distribution network. Generally in such systems the sensor nodes are only...master thesis 2015
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Zaliasl, S (author), Salvia, JC (author), Hill, GC (author), Chen, L (author), Joo, K (author), Palwai, R (author), Arumugam, N (author), Phadke, M (author), Mukherjee, S (author), Lee, HC (author), Grosjean, C (author), Hagelin, PM (author), Pamarti, S (author), Fiez, TS (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Partridge, A (author), Menon, V (author)Thisjournal article 2015
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Roeling, E.G.H. (author)In this thesis an existing method to localise phones in an indoor environment is extended. For this a new method to synchronise the clocks in presented. When looking at the different causes of localisation errors we conclude that the incorrect detection of the time of arrival (TOA) gives the largest errors. This is why we focus on the detection...master thesis 2013
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Rajan, R.T. (author), Van der Veen, A.J. (author)Synchronization and localization are critical challenges for the coherent functioning of a wireless network of mobile nodes. In this paper, a novel joint non-linear range and affine time model is presented based on two way time stamp exchanges, extending an existing affine time-range model. For a pair of nodes, a closed form pairwise least...conference paper 2013