Programmers often rely on performance analysis tools to provide feedback about the execution of their applications. However, the nature of this feedback is far from satisfactory. Often the feedback is purely descriptive ...

Because of the electrical insulating properties of polyimide, it is widely used in the packaging of semiconductor chips. However, it has been documented that the electrical resistivity can be decreased by several orders ...

This dissertation develops several new results on wavelet design using both traditional and new optimization criteria. We consider three different design problems: two problems address explicit optimization of function ...

The metal-insulator transition observed in krypton-fluoride laser irradiated polyimide is used as a method to study the three dimensional percolation theory of random resistor networks. Values for the percolation threshold ...

Representation of an abstract system by a mathematical object such as a matrix or a differential equation is important because much of the analysis is done via representations. For discrete-time input-output systems, ...

Linear multiuser detectors have been developed for CDMA systems to maintain a balance between the performance and computational complexity of the detectors. However for a system with a large number of users and huge data ...

Process design for integrated circuit manufacturing has traditionally been implemented with little simulation prior to fabrication. As with circuit design of a decade ago, the available simulation tools were mainframe-based, ...

In this thesis, a methodology and techniques for the design of a laser range imaging device (LRID) for robotic applications are presented. Furthermore, a prototype incorporating the concepts presented has been successfully ...

Digital transmission over copper loops is studied. Models are found of main sources of interference, including near-end crosstalk (NEXT), far-end crosstalk (FEXT), impulse noise (IN) and intersymbol interference (ISI). ...

As robotics has begun to spread from the accessible arenas of laboratories and industry into more dangerous and remote environments such as space or hazardous waste remediation tanks, the need for autonomous and intelligent ...