Designing an Innovative Brake Control System

Current trailers and caravans use overrun brakes, which cause overheated brakes in the mountains. A solution is to design an electric brake system in which the brakes are controlled electronically instead of mechanically. The report discusses the control models associated with braking, anti-sway detection and velocity sensor fusion. The RDW...

Network-based bootloader for distributed embedded systems applications

This thesis describes the design, implementation and deployment of a network-based bootloader for distributed embedded systems applications. The bootloader is based NXP's LPC1769 microcontroller containing the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. The CAN bus is used as the network's physical layer. Due to the modular design of the bootloader, easily...

Is RISC-V ready for Space? A Security Perspective

Integrated circuits employed in space applications generally have very low-volume production and high performance requirements. Therefore, the adoption of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components and Third Party Intellectual Property cores (3PIPs) is of extreme interest to make system design, implementation and deployment cost-effective and...

Test Set Development for Cache Memory in Modern Microprocessors

Up to 53% of the time spent on testing current Intel microprocessors is needed to test on-chip caches, due to the high complexity of memory tests and to the large amount of transistors dedicated to such memories. This paper discusses the methodology used to develop effective and efficient cache tests, and the way it is implemented to optimize...

A Wideband IQ-Mapping Direct-Digital RF Modulator for 5G Transmitters

This article presents a wideband 2× 12 -bit direct-digital RF modulator (DDRM) operating in a 0.5-to-3-GHz band for 5G transmitters. The proposed digital Cartesian modulator features an advanced IQ-mapping technique to boost RF power by 3 dB and suppress the I/Q image. To verify the proposed concept, a 40-nm CMOS prototype is implemented...

Data Compression Versus Signal Fidelity Tradeoff in Wired-OR Analog-to-Digital Compressive Arrays for Neural Recording

Future high-density and high channel count neural interfaces that enable simultaneous recording of tens of thousands of neurons will provide a gateway to study, restore and augment neural functions. However, building such technology within the bit-rate limit and power budget of a fully implantable device is challenging. The wired-OR...

Efficiency of Double-barrier Magnetic Tunnel Junction-based Digital eNVM Array for Neuro-Inspired Computing

This brief deals with the impact of spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) cell based on double-barrier magnetic tunnel junction (DMTJ) on the performance of a two-layer multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network. The DMTJ-based cell is benchmarked against the conventional single-barrier MTJ (SMTJ) counterpart by means...

Fault Classification and Vulnerability Analysis of Microprocessors

The adoption of Microprocessors is increasingly diversifying to several embedded and mo- bile devices. Growingly they can also be found in Smart Cards, RFID tags, SIM cards, Pay TVs, identity cards and passports. These devices store, processes and transact sensitive information like social security numbers and credit card numbers. Ensuring...

ATP - EMTP Modeling of Distance Relays to Simulate Single Line to Ground Fault Performance in Transmission network

The thesis deals with the modeling and simulation of distance relays in ATP - EMTP. Transmission line which is 125.6 miles long operates at 60 Hz and 115 kV line voltages are simulated in ATP - EMTP. The first part of the thesis discusses the implementation and simulation of the ATP - EMTP model for microprocessor based mho distance relay using...

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...