Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Type
PhD
College
Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Department
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Committee Chair
David Graham
Committee Member
Roy Nutter
Committee Member
Daryl Reynolds
Committee Member
Jeremy Dawson
Committee Member
Edward Sabolsky
Abstract
With ubiquitous wireless communication via Wi-Fi and nascent 5th Generation mobile communications, more devices -- both smart and traditionally "dumb" -- will be interconnected than ever before. This burgeoning trend is referred to as the Internet-of-Things. These new sensing opportunities place a larger burden on the underlying circuitry that must operate on finite battery power and/or within energy-constrained environments. New developments of low-power reconfigurable analog sensing platforms like field-programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) present an attractive sensing solution by processing data in the analog domain while staying flexible in design. This work addresses some of the contemporary challenges of low-power wireless sensing via traditional application-specific sensing and with FPAAs. A large emphasis is placed on furthering the development of FPAAs by making them more accessible to designers without a strong integrated-circuit background -- much like FPGAs have done for digital designers.
Recommended Citation
DiLello, Alexander, "Low-Power Reconfigurable Sensing Circuitry for the Internet-of-Things Paradigm" (2019). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 7386.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7386