Digital implementation of high speed pulse shaping filters and address based serial peripheral interface design

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Joy Laskar and Dr. Stephane Pinel for their support and inspiring leadership throughout the course of this project. I would like to acknowledge Dr Bevin George Perumana for his invaluable guidance and original ideas which have greatly helped in successfully completing this work. I particularly thank him for the excellent mentor he has been and for his precious friendship. I would like to thank Dr John Cressler and Dr David Anderson for taking time and serving on my thesis reading committee. I take this opportunity to thank all the members of the Microwave Applications Group who have been directly or indirectly involved in this work.