Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)To support increasing data-intensive wireless applications, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as the most promising wireless technology that offers high data rate connections by exploiting a large swath of ... -
Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number/Sequence Generators with Applications in RFID
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)This thesis is concerned with the design and analysis of strong de Bruijn sequences and span n sequences, and nonlinear feedback shift register (NLFSR) based pseudorandom number generators for radio frequency identification ... -
Design and Analysis of Green Mission-Critical Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)In recent years, the ever-increasing environmental friendliness concern has made energy efficiency in telecom networks as an important theme in their operations. Meanwhile, mission-critical (MC) services and systems (such ... -
Design and Analysis of Intelligent Fuzzy Tension Controllers for Rolling Mills
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis presents a fuzzy logic controller aimed at maintaining constant tension between two adjacent stands in tandem rolling mills. The fuzzy tension controller monitors tension variation by resorting to electric ... -
Design and Analysis of Low-power SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The explosive growth of battery operated devices has made low-power design a priority in recent years. Moreover, embedded SRAM units have become an important block in modern SoCs. The increasing number of transistor ... -
Design and Analysis of Medium Access Control Protocols for Broadband Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)The next-generation wireless networks are expected to integrate diverse network architectures and various wireless access technologies to provide a robust solution for ubiquitous broadband wireless access, such as wireless ... -
Design and Analysis of Metastable-Hardened, High-Performance, Low-Power Flip-Flops
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-17)With rapid technology scaling, flip-flops are becoming more susceptible to metastability due to tighter timing budgets and the more prominent effects of process, temperature, and voltage variation that can result in frequent ... -
Design and Analysis of Security Schemes for Low-cost RFID Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)With the remarkable progress in microelectronics and low-power semiconductor technologies, Radio Frequency IDentification technology (RFID) has moved from obscurity into mainstream applications, which essentially provides ... -
Design and applications of single-photon devices based on waveguides coupled to quantum emitters
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-28)Engineering photon-photon interactions is fundamentally challenging because photons in vacuum do not interact with each other. While their interactions can be mediated using optical nonlinearities, these effects are ... -
Design and Characterization of an 8x8 Lateral Detector Array for Digital X-Ray Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-01)X-ray imaging has become one of the most pervasive and effective means of diagnosis in medical clinics today. As more imaging systems transition to digital modes of capture and storage, new applications of x-ray imaging, ... -
Design and Characterization of Silicon-on-Insulator Passive Polarization Converter with Finite-Element Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)As optical fiber systems evolve to higher data rates, the importance of polarization control and manipulation steadily increases. Polarization manipulating devices, such as polarization splitters and converters, can be ... -
Design and Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Symmetric Key Primitives
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)The need for lightweight cryptographic primitives to replace the traditional standardized primitives such as AES, SHA-2 and SHA-3, which are unrealistic in constrained environments, has been anticipated by the cryptographic ... -
Design and Development of a Power Modulator for Insulation Testing
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Variable speed drives allow for more precise speed control of induction motors, are of high power factor, and offer fast response characteristics, compared to older technologies, such as motor-generator sets and eddy current ... -
Design and Development of a Self-contained and Non-Invasive Integrated System for Electricity Monitoring Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Growing interest in improving the energy consumption efficiency in residential and commercial buildings has led to the emergence of intelligent energy management systems. This growing technology allows the transformation ... -
Design and Development of IGBT-Based Pulse Voltage Generator for Insulation Testing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-21)With the desire for energy conservation and lower costs, the application of pulse-width modulated (PWM) voltage source converter (VSC) drives has grown at an exponential rate. However, due to their high switching frequency ... -
Design and Fabrication of Centre Frequency and Bandwidth Tunable Cavity Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-18)To facilitate efficient utilization of limited and expensive frequency spectrum in communication system, fully tunable filters are highly demanded. Realizing an absolute constant bandwidth, a reasonable return loss, and a ... -
Design and Gait Synthesis for a 3D Lower Body Humanoid
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-02)Bipedal locomotion is a challenging control engineering problem due to the non-linear dynamics and postural instability of the bipedal form. In addition to these challenges, some dynamical effects such as the ground reaction ... -
Design and Implementation of a Framework for the Interconnection of Cellular Automata in Software and Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-26)There has been a move recently in academia, industry, and the consumer space towards the use of unsupervised parallel computation and distributed networks (i.e., networks of computing elements working together to achieve ... -
Design and Implementation of a High Resolution CMOS X-Ray Imager with Amorphous Selenium Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)This thesis presents a novel system for high resolution X-ray imaging in medical and industrial applications. Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is a standard technology used in most state of the ... -
Design and Implementation of a Modular Test Bed Platform for Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-20)Over the course of the last decade, electric vehicles have seen explosive growth and interest with public adoption and shifting research and development priorities by original equipment manufacturers towards these new ...