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This dissertation focuses on exploring two low power adaptive circuits. One is an adaptive filter at audio frequency for system identification. The other is a temperature insensitive oscillator for low power radio frequency ...

Over the last decade, exponential increase of information bandwidth over the internet and other communication media has increased the total power consumed by the devices associated with information exchange. With ever ...

As technology scales deep in submicron regime, CMOS SRAM memories have become increasingly sensitive to Single-Event Upset sensitivity. Key technological factors that impact Single-Event Upset sensitivity are gate length, ...

In this dissertation, we introduce a new topology control problem for rule- based link-state routing in autonomous networks. In this context, topology control is a mechanism to reduce the broadcast storm problem associated ...

This dissertation is devoted to a study of a class of linear codes related to a particular metric space that generalizes the Hamming space in that the metric function is defined by a partial order on the set of coordinates ...

Inherent openness of the wireless medium imposes stronger challenges on the security of wireless communications. Information-theoretic security addresses these challenges at the physical layer by using tools from wireless ...

The demand for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in embedded systems has been increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of multimedia- and communication-intensive devices such as pervasive tablets and smart phones. Efficient ...

Today, nearly all general-purpose computers are parallel, but nearly all software running on them is serial. Bridging this disconnect by manually rewriting source code in parallel is prohibitively expensive. Automatic ...

Echolocating bats use sonar to sense their environment and hunt for food in darkness. To understand this unusual sensory system from a computational perspective with aspirations towards developing high performance electronic ...

This thesis studies the use of antenna coupled metal-insulator-metal (ACMIM) tunneling diodes for long wave infrared (LWIR) energy harvesting applications. Bow tie shaped ACMIM structures provide good polarization and ...