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In recent years reversible logic has been considered as an important issue for designing low power digital circuits. It has voluminous applications in the present rising nanotechnology such as DNA computing, Quantum Computing, low power…
The reliance on distributed renewable energy has increased recently. As a result, power electronic-based distributed generators replaced synchronous generators which led to a change in the dynamic characteristics of the microgrid. Most…
Electroadhesive clutches are electrically controllable switchable adhesives commonly used in soft robots and haptic user interfaces. They can form strong bonds to a wide variety of surfaces at low power consumption. However, electroadhesive…
Unlike for Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems, for nonlinear systems, there exists no general framework for systematic convex controller design which incorporates performance shaping. The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework sought to…
In TDC testing or timing system implementation tasks, it is often desirable to generate signal pulses with fine adjustable time intervals. In delay cell-based schemes, the time adjustment steps are limited by the propagation delays of the…
Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) sensors are used in engineering applications due to their fine-grained measurements. However, these sensors exhibit non-linear input-output characteristics, which decrease the reliability of…
The scan-based testing has been widely used as a Design-for-Test (DfT) mechanism for most recent designs. It has gained importance not only in manufacturing testing but also in online testing and debugging. However, the multiplexer-based…
This paper presents a mixed-mode delay-locked loop (MM-DLL) with binary search (BS) locking, designed to cover a broad frequency range from 533 MHz to 4.26 GHz. The BS locking scheme optimizes the locking time, reducing it from a linear to…
We present an elastic buffer design that enables all-digital clock recovery implementation with free-running receiver clock featuring negative and positive clock frequency offsets. Error-free real-time data transmission is demonstrated from…
Fluctuations in phase angle and frequency under large disturbances can lead to loss of synchronism (LOS) in grid-following (GFL) converters. The power angle and frequency of synchronous generators (SGs) correspond to rotor position and…
A controller design technique for shaping the frequency response of a process is described. A general linear model (GLM) is used to define the form of a lag or lead compensator in discrete time using a prescribed set of basis functions. The…
We consider the problem of voltage stability and reactive power balancing in islanded small-scale electrical networks outfitted with DC/AC inverters ("microgrids"). A droop-like voltage feedback controller is proposed which is quadratic in…
In this paper, a nonlinear rotational inverted pendulum with time-varying parameters is controlled using the indirect adaptive fuzzy controller design. This type of controller is chosen because this particular system performance is highly…
Piezoelectric nanopositioning systems are often limited by lightly damped structural resonances and the gain--phase constraints of linear feedback, which restrict achievable bandwidth and tracking performance. This paper presents a…
A novel design for a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator is presented and dedicated to power many sections of a typical cellular handset. However, these baseband, RF, and audio sections have different requirements that influence which LDO…
We propose dynamic resistive threshold-logic (DRTL) design based on non-volatile resistive memory. A threshold logic gate (TLG) performs summation of multiple inputs multiplied by a fixed set of weights and compares the sum with a…
The presented paper introduces a design for a phase-locked loop (PLL) that is utilized in frequency synthesis and modulation-demodulation within communication systems and in VLSI applications. The CMOS PLL is designed using 180 nm…