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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 ... -
Design and Implementation of a Multi-Channel Field-Programmable Analog Front-End For a Neural Recording System
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-17)Neural recording systems have attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years, and researchers have put major efforts into designing and developing devices that can record and monitor neural activity. Understanding ... -
Design and Implementation of an OFDM WLAN Synchronizer
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)With the advent of OFDM for WLAN communications, as exemplified by IEEE 802.11a, it has become imperative to have efficient and reliable synchronization algorithms for OFDM WLAN receivers. The main challenges with ... -
Design and Implementation of IGBT Based Power Supply for Food Treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing has been demonstrated to be an effective non-thermal pasteurization method for food-treatment applications. With this method, high voltage, short-duration pulses are applied to a ... -
Design and Modeling of a Soil-Based Energy Harvester for Underground Wireless Sensor Nodes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-28)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have emerged as a reliable and viable solution for monitoring complex large-scale strategic assets that are placed in harsh and hostile environments. Some of the major application areas include ... -
Design and Optimization Methodology of Sub-dermal Electroencephalography Dry Spike-Array Electrode
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Monitoring bio-electric events is a common procedure, which provides medical data required in clinical and research applications. Electrophysiological measurements are applied in diagnosis as well as evaluation of the ... -
Design and Optimization of a Stacked Three-Layer X-ray Detector for Multi-Spectral Medical Imaging Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-16)Dual-Energy (DE) imaging is a powerful technique in x-ray imaging that increases the ability to detect specific materials in a cluttered background, and is used to more accurately visualize anatomical features and diagnose ... -
Design and Optimization of Tunable Matching Networks and Aperture-Tuned Antennas for Mobile Wireless Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-16)In the current wireless market, users have a high level of expectations regarding the functionalities and services added to their wireless mobile devices. At the same time, they also expect performance to remain optimal. ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Efficient Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Cooperative communication has recently become a key technology for modern wireless networks such as 3GPP long-term evolution and WiMAX, because in such networks the transmission rate, the communication reliability, and ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-20)Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are characterized by the lack of continuous end-to-end connections because of node mobility, constrained power sources, and limited data storage space of some or all of its nodes. Applications ... -
Design and Performance Evaluation of a Battery Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-12)The increasing demand on alternative fuel vehicles, especially electric vehicles (EVs), has created an enormous market, as well as great opportunities for further improvements, for battery industry. However, using battery ... -
Design and Testing of a Bidirectional Smart Charger Prototype
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)Rising greenhouse gas emissions, increased fuel costs, and recent technological advances are causing a paradigm shift in the auto-industry away from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles to Electric Vehicles ... -
Design Methodologies and CAD Tools for Leakage Power Optimization in FPGAs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-15)The scaling of the CMOS technology has precipitated an exponential increase in both subthreshold and gate leakage currents in modern VLSI designs. Consequently, the contribution of leakage power to the total chip power ... -
Design of 28 GHz 4x4 RF Beamforming Array for 5G Radio Front-Ends
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)Current state of wireless infrastructure sees mass migration to higher frequencies as much of the already used spectrum is insufficient in supporting the influx of numerous users and various data intensive mobile applications. ... -
Design of a Flexible and Modular Test Bed for Studies on Islanded Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-22)The last two decades in the electric power sector have been increasingly dominated by a rising interest in the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into electric power systems, many of them based on renewable ... -
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 ...