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A Distributed Real-Time Short-Term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Network For Photovoltaic Systems, Michael Adelbert Gacusan Dec 2018

A Distributed Real-Time Short-Term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Network For Photovoltaic Systems, Michael Adelbert Gacusan

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Solar irradiation forecasting is essential for PV connected electrical grids to maintain reliability, stability, and effective matching of real-time demand to power distribution. This research paper develops and evaluates proposed forecasting methods using wireless sensor networks. Each node of the network is capable of monitoring illuminance data and communicate it through RF and/or WiFi. The nodes are calibrated with respect to irradiance data from an industry-standard pyranometer. Power consumption of each node type is also collected at different operating states. The proposed sensor network can estimate a cloud motion vector or a cloud shadow’s speed and direction from the data …


Design On High Performance Nanoscale Cmos Circuits With Low Temperature Sensitivity, Ming Zhu May 2018

Design On High Performance Nanoscale Cmos Circuits With Low Temperature Sensitivity, Ming Zhu

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With the rapid development of integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing technology, the transistor size now can be shrunk into only couple of nanometers whereas billions of transistors can be squeezed into a square millimeter, providing unprecedented computation power. However, accompanied with continuous device miniaturization and increased integration density is the explosive growth of on-chip power dissipation and a wide range of temperature fluctuation, which can heavily and negatively affect the delay performance of the circuit, or in the worst case, the circuit may malfunction and the system can be unreliable. Therefore, improved performance resilience against temperature variations has become …