MSc thesis examples

2021 Niels FakkelDesign of a DAC-based Cryo-CMOS 51.2 Gb/s PAM4 Wireline Transmitter 2018 Daniel BakkerA Lasercom terminal for CubeSats: Sizing, analysis and experimental verification Laurens KinkelaarAdaptive Gait Switching Control Structure using Max Plus in Legged Locomotion

MSc Signals and Systems

Kiran SharmaAdaptation Study of Zebro as Nano Rover for Lunar Exploration and Demonstration of Locomotion on Simulated Lunar Surface

MSc Microelectronics

2024 Xing GaoA LOW OUT-OF-BAND NOISE 2.5GHZ DTX
Olasoji MakinwaA High-Speed Delay-Locked Loop for RF Applications
Jelle Van der PasDesign of a Digital Controlled Oscillator for Bluetooth BLE/EDR combo with high tolerance towards AM-FM interference
Teije OnsteinThe Coil-Hall Hybrid Current Sensor: Exploring the Limits of CMOS High-Speed Low-Noise Current Sensing
David DenekampA 3.15 GHz Digital Class E Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier
2023 Maciej NawrockiResistor-Based Digital-to-Analog Converters
Lunan GuA design of ultra-low phase noise CMOS oscillator based on series-resonance
Lianbo LiuDesign of N-way DPAs/LMBAs for broadband and low-loss applications
Heqi DengA Wideband Low-power Gyrator-enhanced Electrical Balance Duplexer For IR-UWB Transceiver
Aschraf GardouhA 10Gb/s PI-CDR design
Ossama El BoustaniCMOS Drivers for RF-DACs
Erwin AllebesA Doherty-Like Class-G HoC SCPA With Deep Power Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement
Lars GellingPath planning for Lunar Rovers
2022 Hrishi Narayanan KothandaramanModelling & Evaluation of EM Effect of Metal Fills used in IC Technology
Simon VerkleijDesign of an Active N-Path Filter for 5G mm-wave Receivers
Jiang LiuAn Energy-Efficient High-Speed Full-Duplex IR-UWB Transceiver For Joint Radar and Communication (RadCom)
Tariq AzizA Highly-Linear Low-Power Down-Conversion Receiver for Digital Transmitter’s Error Detection
Pieter van der KampReciprocal mixing and inherent nonlinearity in N-path filters
Jelle BoeleCMOS magnetic field sensor using a pick-up loop: for measuring electric currents
Chenyan ZhangStructure electronic design of a crystal filter for high accuracy multi-mode crystal oscillator
Atharva DeshpandeA Highly Linear I/Q-Interleaving DDRM
2021 Lennart de JongA 10Gb/s Cryogenic Clock and Data Recovery System with Low Jitter
Praneetha SannidhanamA novel frequency-tracking loop based on sub-Nyquist samplers for a wide locking range and fast locking
Yu HuangAN ENERGY-EFFICIENT, HIGH-DATA-RATE TRANSMITTER
Richard Coesoij5G mm-Wave Downconverter: Architecture for the Antenna Dome System
Gilbert HardemanA highly linear downconverter for on-chip linearization of digital power amplifiers
Haris charalampidisA HIGH EFFICIENCY SWITCHED-CAPACITOR POWER AMPLIFIER WITH REAL-TIME CALIBRATION FOR HARMONIC SUPPRESSION
Chenyan ZhangStructure electronic design of a crystal filter for high accuracy multi-mode crystal oscillator
2020 Madhumitha JayavelDesign and implementation of a Low Power Mixer-first Receiver for IEEE 802.11ah standard
Bagas PrabowoCharacterization and Design of a Cryogenic CMOS Receiver for Superconducting and Spin Qubit Readout
Anil Kumar KumaranA Linear and Efficient Power Amplifier for WiFi
Jun FengA 10 Gbps Wireline Transceiver Link To Interface
2019 Prabhav ManchandaCURALF: CUbesat for Radio Astronomy at Low Frequencies
Armin ŠabanovićLow-SNR Operation of FSK Demodulators
Charlotte TreffersDesign of a wideband low-power low noise transconductance amplifier for sub-GHz IoT applications
Sarthak SharmaDesign of Wide Range Injection Locked Bang-Bang Phase Locked Loop for Dielectric Spectroscopy
2018 Sunil SheelavantDesign of Frequency locked loop and Receiver front-end for Burst-Chirp UWB Radar Transceiver for Vital Signs and Occupancy Sensing by monitoring the respiration and heartbeat rate
Amitava GiriEnergy Efficient Wideband Transmitter for Millimeter-Wave 5G System
Bas StijnenA military satellite terminal for S&F
Rob BootsmanPower RF-DAC
Shubham VyasUncertainty Estimation in Vision-Aided Robot Teleoperation System
2017 Xiao WangAn IR-UWB pulse generator based on switched capacitors RF-DAC
Anand RameshHigh Efficiency Power Amplifiers for 77GHz Automative RADARs
Jiang GongAnalysis and Design of a Ring-Oscillator-Based Fractional-N Injection-Locked Digital PLL for IoT Applications
Pengqi ChenDistributed Algorithms Design for Zebro Swarming
Hongming YuStructured design of an external NMOS based linear voltage regulator for automotive applications
Michael PolushkinA Wideband Frequency-Agile Phase Modulator for Digital Polar Transmitters
2016 Bishnu PatraCryogenic frequency generationfor scalable control and read-out of qubits
Lei ChenHigh Efficiency IQ-sharing Transmitter
Vijaya PurushothamanAn Ultra-low power Direct Frequency Demodulator for Bluetooth Smart applications
2015 J.M.M. van der MeulenLinearity Analysis and Enhancement Techniques for the Base-Collector Capacitance Dominated Distortion in Bipolar Amplifiers
Georgios SarrisA medium power 135 GHz power amplifier
2014 Yuan GaoDesign of a Duty-Cycled Fractional-N ADPLL Based on Instantaneous Start-up LC DCO and High-precision DTCs
Lianbo WuAn Ultra-Low-Power ADPLL for BLE Applications
Alan ChenDTC and TDC IC Design for Ultra-Low-Power ADPLL
R.G. VenterA Package Integratable Six Port Reflectometer for RF Power Devices
A. PillaiLNA and Square Law Detector at 60 GHz for Passive Radiometers
Bindi WangEdge-prediction DTC and Clock-gating TDC Design for Ultra Low Power All Digital PLL
2013 Gerasimos VlachogiannakisLow Power, All-Digital Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers for Multi-GHz Applications
Satoshi MalotauxFull-Duplex CMOS Duplexer: Passive self-interference cancellation
Sanganagouda PatilAn Ultra-Linear LNA for Base stations
Vamshi ChillaraAn Ultra-Low-Power ADPLL for WPAN Applications
Jianghai HeWideband High Power Doherty Amplifiers
2012 Mohammadreza MehrpooA Highly Selective, Very Linear Low Noise Transconductance Amplifier Capable of Large-Signal Handling for Current-Mode Receivers Front-End
Yang LiA NMOS Linear Voltage Regulator for Automotive Applications
Santosh AstgimathA low noise, low power dynamic amplifier with common mode detect and a low power, low noise comparator for pipelined SAR-ADC
Md. Shakil AkterA Low-Power Class-AB Residue Amplifier for a 12bit 500MS/sec Pipeline ADC with Digital Calibration
Armin TavakolDigitally Controlled Oscillator for WiMAX in 40 nm
2011 Ajay Kumar ManjannaDesign and development of active baseband loadpull system
Wenlong JiangADPLL Design for WiMAX
Jing LiWideband High Power Amplifier Design
S. MotoroiuMulti-band/Multi-Mode RF Front-end Receiver for Basestation Applications
X. ZhangDesign of a Baseband Section for LTE-Advanced Mobile Communiation
Ao BaUltra-low-power Digitally-controlled Oscillator for Event-driven Transmitter
Popong EffendrikTime-to-Digital Converter (TDC) for WiMAX ADPLL in State-of-The-Art 40-nm CMOS
2010 G. MishraAn Oscillator System for a Quadrature Downconversion Auto-Correlation Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Receiver
R. SehgalA 12-bit 500MS/s Pipeline Split-ADC
K.I.M.I. Khalaf60GHz front-end receiver chain in 90nm CMOS technology
J. Shen60GHz Quadrature Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Radar Application
X. DengWideband Doherty Power Amplifier Design for Base Station Application
K. ShiA 60W Compact Highly Efficient Wideband Class-E Power Amplifier
Y. WangWideband Class-B Power Amplifiers
B. WuHighly Linear LNA Design for Base Station Applications
R. ZhangDesign Study on the Switched and Linear Operation of Broadband CMOS Class-E Power Amplifiers
R.F. KeareyA high-efficiency switch-mode amplitude modulator for class E power amplifiers in nano-satellites
2009 M.H. SadeghiNew architecture for remote powered wireless transmitter
A. DonmezWideBand PLL as a clock multiplier
L. JiangSignal Up-conversion for Integrated Radar Systems
2008 J. WanDesign of a Distributed Clock Generator for Multiple Power Domain System-on-Chip Integrated Circuits

MSc Embedded Systems

2019 Thijs ter HorstUItra-Wideband Communication and Relative Localisation for Swarming Robots
2018 Floris RouwenLunar Zebro - Software Design Of The Locomotion Sub-System With The Dezyne Model Driven Development Tool
2017 Jurriaan de GrootSwarm Behaviour for the Zebro Robot