INTEGRATED DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR SOLAR COMMUNITIES

Design considerations for a solar-powered desalination system for remote communities in Australia

Water in many areas of Australia is scarce and of poor quality. In some areas high levels of treatment are required either due to contamination of waters or due to high salinity. Nanofiltration (NF) and low pressure RO membranes are well recognised technologies to treat waters of qualities ranging from low salinity surface water to high salinity seawater. In remote communities the operation of ...

Habitat Design Considerations for Implementing Solar Particle Event Radiation Protection

Radiation protection is an important habitat design consideration for human exploration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit. Fortunately, radiation shelter concepts can effectively reduce astronaut exposure for the relatively low proton energies of solar particle events, enabling moderate duration missions of several months before astronaut exposure (galactic cosmic ray and solar particle event) ap...

Fully integrated CMOS transmitter design considerations

Traditionally, multiple IC chips are needed to build transmitters (Tx) used in wireless communications. The difficulty with a full Tx integration is that each Tx building block uses different technology. A power-detection circuit will exploit the Schottky diode, while the modulator IC is integrated with BiCMOS or SiGe. Likewise, the digital control loop is implemented in CMOS. Now that directco...

Challenges and Design Considerations for Integrated VCOs in Wireless Communications

This paper attempts to list challenges and possible solutions for designing integrated voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) in wireless products. Such challenges include oscillation frequency, frequency coverage, linearity of tuning curves, phase noise, power consumption, oscillation amplitude variations, sensitivity to process, supply voltage, and temperature variations (PVT), coupling to and...

Design Considerations for CMOS - Integrated Hall - effect Magnetic