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A Novel Reconfiguration Scheme In Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata For Energy Efficient Nanocomputing, Madhusudan Chilakam
A Novel Reconfiguration Scheme In Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata For Energy Efficient Nanocomputing, Madhusudan Chilakam
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is currently being investigated as an alternative to CMOS technology. There has been extensive study on a wide range of circuits from simple logical circuits such as adders to complex circuits such as 4-bit processors. At the same time, little if any work has been done in considering the possibility of reconfiguration to reduce power in QCA devices. This work presents one of the first such efforts when considering reconfigurable QCA architectures which are expected to be both robust and power efficient. We present a new reconfiguration scheme which is highly robust and is expected to …
Sige Millimeter-Wave (W-Band) Down-Converter For Phased Focal Plane Array, Maruthi Nagavalli Yogeesh
Sige Millimeter-Wave (W-Band) Down-Converter For Phased Focal Plane Array, Maruthi Nagavalli Yogeesh
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
A millimeter-wave (W-Band) down-converter for Phased Focal Plane Arrays (PFPAs) has been designed and fabricated using the IBM Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS 8HP process technology. The radio frequency (RF) input range of the down-converter chip is from 70 95GHz. The intermediate frequency (IF) range is from 5 30GHz. The local oscillator (LO) frequency is fixed at 65GHz. The down-converter chip has been designed to achieve a conversion gain greater than 20dB, a noise figure (NF) below 10dB and input return loss greater than 10dB. The chip also has novel LO circuitry facilitating LO feed-through among down-converters chips in parallel. This wide …