Architectures for e-Textiles

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dc.contributor.authorNakad, Zahi Samiren
dc.contributor.committeecochairMartin, Thomas L.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairJones, Mark T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAthanas, Peter M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMidkiff, Scott F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBaumann, William T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAl-Qadi, Imadeddin L.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-22T18:52:44Zen
dc.date.adate2004-01-06en
dc.date.available2011-08-22T18:52:44Zen
dc.date.issued2003-12-10en
dc.date.rdate2004-01-06en
dc.date.sdate2003-12-23en
dc.description.abstractThe huge advancement in the textiles industry and the accurate control on the mechanization process coupled with cost-effective manufacturing offer an innovative environment for new electronic systems, namely electronic textiles. The abundance of fabrics in our regular life offers immense possibilities for electronic integration both in wearable and large-scale applications. Augmenting this technology with a set of precepts and a simulation environment creates a new software/hardware architecture with widely useful implementations in wearable and large-area computational systems. The software environment acts as a functional modeling and testing platform, providing estimates of design metrics such as power consumption. The construction of an electronic textile (e-textile) hardware prototype, a large-scale acoustic beamformer, provides a basis for the simulator and offers experience in building these systems. The contributions of this research focus on defining the electronic textile architecture, creating a simulation environment, defining a networking scheme, and implementing hardware prototypes.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12232003-113641en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232003-113641en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/11084en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartDissertation.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcomputational fabricsen
dc.subjecte-textilesen
dc.subjectacoustic arrayen
dc.subjectbeamformingen
dc.subjectembedded systemsen
dc.titleArchitectures for e-Textilesen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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