High Performance Digital-input Class-D Amplifier

Class-D amplifiers have gained popularity for their high-power efficiency, exceeding 90%. Among them, digital-input Class-D amplifiers stand out due to their superior integration and increased immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI). This project introduces a high-performance digital-input Class-D amplifier, aiming for a dynamic range...

Recurrent Neural Network-based Digital Predistortion for wideband Radio Frequency Power Amplifier

With the advancement of 5G/6G radio networks, the demand for high-performance power amplifiers (PAs) with clean spectra and compact constellations has increased significantly. To address these challenges, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based digital predistortion (DPD) has emerged as a promising approach to linearize radio-frequency (RF) PAs....

Digital twin application in heritage facilities management: systematic literature review and future development directions

This paper aims to investigate the theoretical and practical links between digital twin (DT) application in heritage facilities management (HFM) from a life cycle management perspective and to signpost the future development directions of DT in HFM.<br/><br/>This state-of-the-art review was conducted using a systematic literature review method....

IFC models for semi-automating common planning checks for building permits

To support building permit issuing with automatic digital tools, the reuse of models produced by designers would make the process quicker and more objective. However, current studies and pilots often leave a gap with respect to the models as actually provided by architects, having varying quality and content. In this study, rather than taking...

Automatic building permits checks by means of 3D city models

Most construction work requires building permit checks. Therefore, to promote sustainable and high-quality urban development, it is necessary to improve the building permit application process and accelerate the digital process of building permit checks. <br/><br/>Many studies about the digitalization of building permitting use the BIM, mainly...

Digital biofabrication to realize the potentials of plant roots for product design

Technological and economic opportunities, alongside the apparent ecological benefits, point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first century. The presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures, where the biologically and...

Geobim for digital building permit process: Learning from a case study in Rotterdam

Among the digitalization processes which are being raised in Europe and in the world, the building permit process is seen as one of the priorities by municipalities, governmental institutions and standardization organizations. However, in current practice, the building permit issuing as well as the integration of geoinformation with BIM ...

An On-Chip Self-Characterization of a Digital-to-Time Converter by Embedding it in a First-Order ΔΣ Loop

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 &amp;#x0394;&amp;#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...

The cycle pavilion in Brettenzone -Architecture Engineering Graduation Studio 11

Two parts are included in this one year graduation project:first part is the technique research paper about complex timber structure in digital fabrication; second part is a cycle pavilion design based on the result of the research.

A 56.4-to-63.4 GHz Multi-Rate All-Digital Fractional-N PLL for FMCW Radar Applications in 65 nm CMOS

A mm-wave digital transmitter based on a 60 GHz all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with wideband frequency modulation (FM) for FMCW radar applications is proposed. The fractional-N ADPLL employs a high-resolution 60 GHz digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and is capable of multi-rate two-point FM. It achieves a measured rms jitter of 590.2...

A Low-Power Thermal Wind Sensor in CMOS Technology

Wind sensors are widely used in many critical applications, such as navigation, weather forecast, aerospace and wind energy assessment. The thermal wind sensor can measure wind speed and direction at the same time, by measuring the temperature gradient on the sensor’s surface which is induced by the wind flow. Compared to traditional mechanical...

Millimeter-Wave Digitally-Assisted Frequency Synthesizer in CMOS