Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes both ASU Theses and Dissertations, submitted by graduate students, and the Barrett, Honors College theses submitted by undergraduate students.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3
Filtering by
- Creators: Electrical Engineering Program
Description
This Honors Thesis describes the work done to implement an assembler for a MIPS-like processor. MIPS was a processor designed in the 1980s. While assemblers are available for the MIPS processor, the assembler described below was developed specifically for a MIPS-like processor designed as part of another project. This project was undertaken to improve the understanding of processor architecture, assembly language, machine language, and how to translate assembly instructions into machine language.
Assembly language is a human readable language for writing computer programs. It is a low-level language that is processor specific. Modern languages such as C++ have to first be translated into assembly language and then translated into machine language.
Machine language is the zeros and ones that the computer understands. While the original programs written in the mid 1900s were required to be written in machine language, that is no longer feasible since programs are much larger and the processors are more complex. Therefore, a means of translating from high-level languages to machine language is required. The work described here concerns the translation from assembly language to machine language.
ContributorsMillman, Leah (Author) / Wong, Marnie (Thesis director) / Allee, David (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Electrical Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
Description
The purpose of the automated pool system is to keep the chlorine level at a safe, reasonable level, by automatically dispensing chlorine in the pool when needed. This was to help the user upkeep with their pool, and also let the user know the current status of their pool. The project will also include Bluetooth communication, for the user to receive ORP, pH, and temperature sensor values. With these values the user will be instructed what chemical need to be added to their pool in order to keep their pool pH at a comfortable level. The user will also be able to prompt the Bluetooth terminal and receive the current ORP, pH, and temperature values of their pool.
ContributorsClarke-Telfer, Nina Lynore (Author) / Hartin, Olin (Thesis director) / Allee, David (Committee member) / Electrical Engineering Program (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
Description
The ability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image any part of the human body without the effects of harmful radiation such as in CAT and PET scans established MRI as a clinical mainstay for a variety of different ailments and maladies. Short wavelengths accompany the high frequencies present in high-field MRI, and are on the same scale as the human body at a static magnetic field strength of 3 T (128 MHz). As a result of these shorter wavelengths, standing wave effects are produced in the MR bore where the patient is located. These standing waves generate bright and dark spots in the resulting MR image, which correspond to irregular regions of high and low clarity. Coil loading is also an inevitable byproduct of subject positioning inside the bore, which decreases the signal that the region of interest (ROI) receives for the same input power. Several remedies have been proposed in the literature to remedy the standing wave effect, including the placement of high permittivity dielectric pads (HPDPs) near the ROI. Despite the success of HPDPs at smoothing out image brightness, these pads are traditionally bulky and take up a large spatial volume inside the already small MR bore. In recent years, artificial periodic structures known as metamaterials have been designed to exhibit specific electromagnetic effects when placed inside the bore. Although typically thinner than HPDPs, many metamaterials in the literature are rigid and cannot conform to the shape of the patient, and some are still too bulky for practical use in clinical settings. The well-known antenna engineering concept of fractalization, or the introduction of self-similar patterns, may be introduced to the metamaterial to display a specific resonance curve as well as increase the metamaterial’s intrinsic capacitance. Proposed in this paper is a flexible fractal-inspired metamaterial for application in 3 T MR head imaging. To demonstrate the advantages of this flexibility, two different metamaterial configurations are compared to determine which produces a higher localized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and average signal measured in the image: in the first configuration, the metamaterial is kept rigid underneath a human head phantom to represent metamaterials in the literature (single-sided placement); and in the second, the metamaterial is wrapped around the phantom to utilize its flexibility (double-sided placement). The double-sided metamaterial setup was found to produce an increase in normalized SNR of over 5% increase in five of six chosen ROIs when compared to no metamaterial use and showed a 10.14% increase in the total average signal compared to the single-sided configuration.
ContributorsSokol, Samantha (Author) / Sohn, Sung-Min (Thesis director) / Allee, David (Committee member) / Jones, Anne (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Electrical Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05