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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration of Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 IPRO Day Presentation F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration og Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 Project Plan F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration of Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 Midterm Report F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration of Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 Final Report F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration of Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 Abstract F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343: Integration of Hydroelectric Energy IPRO 343 Poster F06
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343
Creator: Choe, Hyung, Burgos-lopez, Mauricio, Ha, Sooyoung, Lee, Chi Hwan, Liu, Cong, Song, Chang, Wang, Jianhui, Wu, Lei
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the...
Show moreThe objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid.
Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng
Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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Title: Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
Creator: Choi, Gilsu, Cho, Hwansung, Godfrey, Jarrod, Kwak, Nohhyup, Mikulka, Michael, Park, Yujin, Spears, Donald, Song, Chang, Sun, Cheng, Terry, Nastasja, Wakhlu, Govind, Zhang, Yu
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in...
Show moreIPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users.
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