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Design of a mm-wave Planar CPW-fed Tapered Dielectric Rod Antenna
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-16)The demand for high data rate transfers in short range areas have been increasing significantly. Millimeter wave communication systems can fulfill the requirements for such applications due to the availability of wide ... -
Design of a MOSFET-Based Pulsed Power Supply for Electroporation
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The use of high-voltage pulsed electric fields in biotechnology and medicine has lead to new methods of cancer treatment, gene therapy, drug delivery, and non-thermal inactivation of microorganisms. Regardless of the ... -
Design of a Power Amplifier and Envelope Amplifier for a Multi-band Multi-standard Envelope Tracking System
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)This thesis presents the design of a Power Amplifier (PA) and envelope amplifier for an Envelope Tracking (ET) system that is aimed at meeting emerging radio standards in terms of power efficiency and linearity. The class ... -
Design of a Robust Priming Controller for SMA Actuators
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-21)Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) have been demonstrated to be effective actuator elements in a wide range of applications, such as robotics, medicine, aerospace and automotive. Enabled by the unique thermo-mechanical properties ... -
Design of A Saccadic Active Vision System
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Human vision is remarkable. By limiting the main concentration of high-acuity photoreceptors to the eye's central fovea region, we efficiently view the world by redirecting the fovea between points of interest using eye ... -
Design of a Time Based Analog to Digital Converter
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-12)Analog to digital converter (ADC) plays a very important role in any mixed analog/digital system. Because digital CMOS technology can take advantage of technology scaling, system designers try to increase the percentage ... -
Design of a Two-Stage Level-Two Bidirectional On-Board Battery Charger for Plugin Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Depletion of fossil fuel reserves, increasing awareness of air pollution levels and continuous rise in gasoline prices are some of the major drives that have been revolutionizing the automotive industry since the last ... -
Design of an IGBT-Based Pulsed Power Supply for Non-continuous-mode Electrospinning
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)Nanofibres are useful in a broad range of applications in areas such as medical science, food science, materials engineering, environmental engineering, and energy and electronics due to their outstanding characteristics: ... -
Design of an Integrated Electrostatic Atomic Force Microscope
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)The need for investigation and characterization of physical, chemical and structural properties of material surfaces at the micro and nano scales led to the invention of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in 1986 as a successor ... -
Design of an OTN-based Failure/Alarm Propagation Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)This thesis presents OTN failure/alarm propagation behavior analysis and an OTN simulator based on failure/alarm propagation behavior on the optical layer of optical transport network (OTN) architecture. The simulator code ... -
Design of Binocular Stereo Vision System Via CNN-based Stereo Matching Algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-06)Stereo vision is one of the representative technologies in the 3D camera, using multiple cameras to perceive the depth information in the three-dimensional space. The binocular one has become the most widely applied method ... -
Design of CMOS Distributed Amplifiers for Broadband Wireline and Wireless Communication Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2006)While the RF building blocks of narrowband system-on-chip designs have increasingly been created in CMOS during the past decade, researchers have started to look at the possibility of implementation of broadband ... -
A Design of Electronic Medical Record System based on Permissioned Blockchain
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-07)Blockchain, due to its decentralized, verifiable, and security features, is increasingly used in more and more scenarios, but the original public chain cannot meet the needs of some enterprise or group financial scenarios ... -
Design of High Efficiency Broadband Adjusted Class AB Power Amplifier
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-12)This thesis starts with a discussion of different classes of operation of power amplifiers (PAs). Comparing advantages and disadvantages of these classes, class AB is chosen as the best initial candidate for the design of ... -
Design of High Throughput Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-01)Wireless Mesh Networks are increasingly becoming popular as low cost alternatives to wired networks for providing broadband access to users (the last mile connectivity). A key challenge in deploying wireless mesh networks ... -
Design of Low Voltage Unsaturated Ring Oscillator for a Sigma Delta Time to Digital Converter
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)This thesis investigates the phase noise of two different 2-stage cross-coupled pair unsaturated ring oscillators with no tail current source. One oscillator consists of top cross-coupled pair delay cells, and the other ... -
Design of practical computer vision system with real-time object detection capability
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-07)Computer vision nowadays relies heavily on machine learning techniques to interpret useful information from images or videos. Object detection is one such computer vision technique for identifying and locating objects ... -
Design of Soft Error Robust High Speed 64-bit Logarithmic Adder
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-20)Continuous scaling of the transistor size and reduction of the operating voltage have led to a significant performance improvement of integrated circuits. However, the vulnerability of the scaled circuits to transient data ... -
Design of SRAM Based Dosimetry Used for Neutron and Proton Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-27)Radiation causes soft errors in memory devices, and a variety of research has been focused on techniques to reduce these soft errors. In this thesis, instead of mitigating soft errors, we present an SRAM based dosimeter ... -
Design of Stream Ciphers and Cryptographic Properties of Nonlinear Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-20)Block and stream ciphers are widely used to protect the privacy of digital information. A variety of attacks against block and stream ciphers exist; the most recent being the algebraic attacks. These attacks reduce the ...