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With the increasing penetration of converter-interfaced distributed generation systems, it would be advantageous to specify local compliance criteria for these devices to ensure the small-signal stability of the interconnected system.…
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Both theoretical and experimental evidence are presented in this work in order to validate the existence of an Energy/Frequency Convexity Rule, which relates energy consumption and microprocessor frequency for nanometer-scale…
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A specific failure mode designated as transient micro-short circuit (TMSC) has been identified in practical battery systems, exhibiting subtle and latent characteristics with measurable voltage deviations. To further improve the safe use of…
The latest generation of transistors are nanoscale devices whose performance and reliability are limited by thermal noise in low-power applications. Therefore developing efficient methods to compute the voltage and current fluctuations in…
A Low-Power Variable Gain (VG) mm-Wave Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is designed and simulated in a 28-nm CMOS process. The LNA utilizes a simple, yet novel, technique presented in this paper to vary the small-signal output resistance to…
This paper presents a switch-type attenuator working from 20 to 100 GHz. The attenuator adopts a capacitive compensation technique to reduce phase error. The small resistors in this work are implemented with metal lines to reduce the…
There is a trade-off between transient performance and line current distortion of the DC bus voltage control of single-phase grid-connected voltage source converters. This paper presents an improved DC bus voltage control scheme of such…
This paper presents low power dissipation, low phase noise ring oscillators (ROs) based on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) 0.18{\mu}m CMOS technology at liquid helium temperature (LHT). First, the…
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