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Energy Efficient Data Centers for On-Demand Cloud Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The primary objective of the Data Centers (DCs) is to provide in-time services to the cloud customers. For in-time services, DCs required an uninterruptable power supply at low cost. The DCs’ power supply is directly linked ... -
Energy Efficient Resource Scheduling Methodologies for Cluster and Cloud Computing
(North Dakota State University, 2015)One of the major challenges in the High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, Data Centers, and Cloud Computing paradigms is intelligent power management to improve energy efficiency. The key contribution of the presented ... -
Enhanced Augmented Reality Framework for Sports Entertainment Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes virtual information on real-world data, such as displaying useful information on videos/images of a scene. This dissertation presents an Enhanced AR (EAR) framework for displaying useful ... -
Equivalence Verification for NULL Convention Logic and Latency-Insensitive Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2016)NULL convention logic and latency-insensitive circuits are delay-tolerant circuits that can be synthesized from a synchronous speci cation. These design paradigms can use existing CAD ows to implement circuits that are ... -
Equivalent Circuit Modeling and Signal Integrity Analysis of Magneto-Static Responsive Structures, and Their Applications in Changing The Effective Permittivity of Microstrip Transmission Lines
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This work presents the equivalent circuit model, ringing and overshoot characteristics, as well as the ability of a new magneto-static responsive structure (MRS) to achieve the recon gurabil- ity of a variable e ective ... -
Estimating Tau (τ) from Left Ventricular Pressure Waveforms During Vena Caval Occlusions
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Many people are dependent on artificial pacemakers to have a normal cardiac function. Due to this it is important to study the effects of pacing on cardiac function, as well as, to determine the best site to pace with an ... -
Extraction of Electromagnetic Properties of Metamaterials with Branch Compensation from Phase Tracking
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In the field of electromagnetism, there are materials known as metamaterials which exhibit unique properties that can be exploited. Permittivity, defined as capacitance per meter, of a metamaterial can vary over frequency ... -
A Far-Field Radio Frequency Experimental Exposure System and 31 Day Exposure Experiment on Understanding Mice
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Many studies have been performed on exploring the effects of radio frequency energy on biological function in vivo. In particular, gene expression results have been inconclusive due, in part, to a lack of a standardized ... -
Fault Tolerant and Adaptive Systems with Focus on Networks-On-Chips
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The first step in design of reliable systems is the ability to evaluate the reliability of the system. This is an important step in the process of designing reliable systems because design techniques that proactively improve ... -
Formal Modeling and Verification Methodologies for Quasi-Delay Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Pre-Charge Half Buffers (PCHB) and NULL convention Logic (NCL) are two major commercially successful Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous paradigms, which are known for their low-power performance and inherent ... -
Formal Verification Methodologies for NULL Convention Logic Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2020)NULL Convention Logic (NCL) is a Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous design paradigm that aims to tackle some of the major problems synchronous designs are facing as the industry trend of increased clock rates and ... -
Formal Verification Methodology for Asynchronous Sleep Convention Logic Circuits Based on Equivalence Verification
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Sleep Convention Logic (SCL) is an emerging ultra-low power Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous design paradigm with enormous potential for industrial applications. Design validation is a critical concern before ... -
A Formal Verification Methodology for Real-time FPGA
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Real-time systems in safety-critical and mission-critical domains have stringent or hard timing constraints. The correctness of such systems is of prime importance to avoid any unacceptable consequences like a big financial ... -
Formal Verification Techniques for Safety Critical Medical Device Software Control
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Safety-critical medical devices play an important role in improving patients health and lifestyle. Faulty behaviors of such devices can cause harm or even death. Often these faulty behaviors are caused due to bugs in ... -
FPGA-Based Simulation and Implementation of Induction Motor Torque Control Systems Based on Direct Torque Control (DTC)
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Electric drives for induction machines are of great importance because of the popularity of this machine type. To design, simulate and implement such drives, fast, reliable digital signal processors are needed. Recently ... -
Hardware Design for Cryptographic Protocols: An Algorithmic State Machine Design Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis presents Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) designs that follow the One Cycle Demand Driven Convention (OCDDC) of three cryptographic protocols: Secure Distributed Multiplication (SDM), Pi Secure Distributed ... -
Heuristics for Dual Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Nowadays there is an increasing interest in wireless sensor networks due to their usage in a diverse range of applications such as telemetry and smart grids. In such networks, a valid concern is the minimization of the ... -
High Performance Static Random Access Memory Design for Emerging Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Memory wall is becoming a more and more serious bottleneck of the processing speed of microprocessors. The mismatch between CPUs and memories has been increasing since three decades ago. SRAM was introduced as the bridge ... -
High Power Density and High Efficiency DC-DC Converters Based on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
(North Dakota State University, 2019)As the rapid development of semiconductor technologies, more and more power electronic devices are used in our daily life. The power converters are widely used in many emerging areas, such as renewable energy and clean ... -
High Power Density GaN Based Boost Inverter and Resonant Modular Multilevel Boost Converter for Automotive Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2018)With the rise in demand for electric vehicles increasing, the need for high efficiency electrification systems is in high demand. One challenge is keeping full output power to the electric drives as the vehicle battery ...