Hardware Efficient Delta Sigma Linear Processing Circuits

A Delta Sigma modulator converts an analog input signal to a Delta Sigma modulated digital bit-stream. A first-order Delta Sigma modulator consists of an analog integrator, a one-bit ADC, and a one-bit digital to analog converter (DAC), as shown in Fig. 2. In the Delta Sigma modulator circuit, the analog input port and the digital output port can use either dual power supplies or a single power supply. To avoid confusion, we use P and N to represent the polarity of the output digital signals. P means a digital positive value “true", while N means a digital negative value “false". We use numbers to represent digital or analog levels. For example, −1 and +1 represent the dual power supply level VSS and VDD, respectively. 0 means analog ground, which is 0 volts in a dual power system.

With the advent of IOT billions of iot devices are getting connected in the near future. Vast amount of chips and design solutions are emerging in the iot market. But the problem with these designs is that what we have are power hungry application processors that provide ample performance, but are not energy-efficient for running battery-powered IoT devices. And there are microcontrollers that are cheap and low-power, but fail to provide the performance levels necessary for implementing

In this section, the currently used decimation filters are considered for comparison and hardware requirements. As the only truly customizable feature within the current design, it is imperative to find a filter that can satisfy the requirements that will be outlined in later section of the report. As such this review is conducted to find and identify different decimation filters structures that can be used. SDR systems conduct a significant amount of signal processing on general process. To combat this, the SDRs implement sample rate conversion in the form of decimation; the focus of this review is on this premise and what filters have previously been implemented.

Nowadays, the major limitations on computation performance are memory access latencies and power consumption. Due to memory access latency, for instance, the recently achieved CPU clock frequency of 5.7 GHz must be constraint to the maximum access speed of off-chip

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This semester we chose to develop a Six Sigma analysis on the manufacturing process of computers at Dell, Inc. Our goal was to take the manufacturing process currently in place for the production of laptops and desktop PCs and maximize quality, efficiency, and the longevity of the computers.

Dual Processing is the concept of how information is simultaneously processed into two cognitive levels. There are two cognitive levels which aid in the processing of information. These cognitive levels are sequential processing and unconscious parallel processing. These cognitive levels separate conscious and unconscious cognitive tracks. These cognitive tracks are essential for our day to day lives and allow us to go through our day to day lives with ease.

The mote’s size makes energy management a key component. The circuit will contain circuits, a temperature sensor, and A/D converter, microprocessor, SRAM, communications circuits, and power control circuits. Sensors work together with the IC, which will operate from a power source integrated with the platform.

The main objective of this lab is to implement 28T 1-Bit Full Adder with inverter as a load and calculating the rise time, fall time and propagation delays using Cadence ™ tool for VLSI design at different stop times.

Power consumption is an important issue in modern FPGA’s. Greater performance and complexity has led to higher power dissipation per chip, while the use of deep sub-micron processes has resulted in higher static power in the forms of sub-threshold leakage and gate leakage. Heating solutions for devices with high power dissipation is expensive. If FPGA’s are to be used in portable devices, power consumption needs to be reduced. -powered applications, high power consumption may prohibit the use of FPGA altogether. Consequently, solutions for reducing FPGA power are needed. In this work, I propose a programmable dual-VDD architecture in which the

A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

With improvements in capacity and performance and a decrease in cost, FPGAs have become a viable solution for making custom chips and programmable DSP devices. This paper presents an efficient implementation of Finite Impulse Response Filter (FIR) using Distributed Arithmetic (DA) architecture based on FPGA with the help of xilinx system generator software. Here, the multipliers in FIR filter are replaced with multiplierless DA based technique to remove high frequency Electrocardiogram(EMG) noise from ECG signal. As digital filters plays very significant role in the analysis of the low frequency components in Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The ECG is susceptible to noise and it is essential to remove the noise in order to support any decision making for specialist and automatic heart disorder diagnosis systems. We purposed that the signals under experiment has been added with muscle noise and after applying different FIR method, the signals according to signal noise ratio (SNR) and MSE(mean square error) are evaluated. It introduces an effective technique for the denoising of ECG signals corrupted by High frequency muscles contraction noise. The performances of the system were evaluated using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology University and Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) database. Muscle noise is taken from MIT-BIH noise stress database .Simulation results shows that High frequency EMG noise from ECG was removed effectively by using FIR low pass filter.

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Operational amplifiers (Op Amp) have been in use for quite a long a long time now in the field of electronics and electrical engineering. A basic Op Amp has got three connections consisting of 1 output and 2 inputs. For definition purposes the two input terminals are called inverting and non-inverting inputs (Huijsing, 2011). Huijsing (2011) adds that it has been found and proven that when the voltage at both points of the inputs is the same, there will be no output on the other side. The image below shows an ideal Op Amp with the terminals shown.