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Esp 100 | 5633 AA Eindhoven | [email protected] | +31 40 2646400 WWW.AME.NU presidential note Another year Dear members, while I am writing this, I can look back to another year, with the busy December month at its end. We enjoyed the active member outing and, two days later, the Christmas dinner. It passed in a more struc- President tured way than I remember from previous years, with most active mem- bers still appearing to be somewhat tired. After SCALA had cleaned up, everyone could rest during two well-deserved holiday weeks. 85th Bo cintilla ard of E.T.S.V. S Currently, those holiday weeks seem long would like to take a break from all the stu- ago, because of exams. When you are rea- dying, have new experiences, but still spend ding this Vonk, this will probably the case as your year in a useful way, please consider well. But, while you’re studying, the end of being a member of the 86th board next year. the year already seems somewhat near. For For now, good luck on your exams and en- the board, this means the last phase has star- joy reading this edition of the Vonk! Grolsch Excursion ted: recruiting a new board. In other words, Thursday 09 April one of the board members might want to Dames en heren, 15:45, Grolschbrouwerij, talk with you about joining the board, and Op de koningin, op Scintilla! I would like to take this moment to reflect on everything Scintilla, with all its commit- tees, does. Think of all the fun activities, like the recent Christmas dinner and all the other drinks and festivities, but also of the Hitchhiking weekend more serious activities, like the excursions, Saturday 18 April courses and lunch lectures, making sure you 10:00h, Leuven, Belgium can buy your books and electronic compo- nents, maintaining the quality of the educa- tion, and last but not least, producing this Mickey Derks Vonk. If you are as proud of this as I am and President 43rd Batavierenrace Friday 24 April 23:29, Nijmegen to Enschede Scrapheap challenge Friday 08 May 20:00, Educafé year 33 3 edition 2 table of contents table of contents Luuk Oudshoorn did an internship at Nedap at the retail The smaller a chemical lab would be, the more chemical market group. The retail market group develops many labs there could be used, and the more efficient it would Masthead things, of which one is RFID solutions. This system is be. The lab-on-a-chip group from BIOS basically tries to used for tagging individual products for shops and pre- Editorial make a complete working (bio)chemical lab on a smaller vent theft. The response time of the tags unfortunately is De Vonk chip. The article will give more insight on the removing too large, and therefore will not always work. At Nedap, Periodical of E.T.S.V. Scintilla. of ions using capacitive charging and the network analy- 10. research is done to make this response time shorter and 34. Published four times a year in the sis for microfluidic systems. Perks of re-doing amount of 700 copies. Main Article therefore make theft prevention technology better. Internship year 33, edition 2 Editing de Vonk after a long day of fol- December 2014 lowing college or doing projects. That s i-1 is how most of the lay-out evenings are. s Hardware design is becoming more and more complex For his bachelor assignment Tobias did research for the i r i hvi ei This one is different. Being a second-year Editorial team s i+1 with the growing complexity of the hardware that has to Integrated Circuit Design chair. His focus laid on the Maksym Aleksandrovych, Tim i+1 be designed. The ihardware description language VHDLi-1 full-duplex radio communication where he did research student re-doing a first year module, di+2 di+1 di di-1 there is time and space to enjoy the day. Broenink, Erwin Bronkhorst, Lynn is hard to learn, which does not make it easier. At the on mixers within the integrated RF front-ends. Since it is Not that studying is not enjoyable, but Bruins, Pepijn Ekelmans. Guus CAES group, they developed a hardware description in the frequency domain there is always distortion which λ must be taken into account. For his bachelor thesis To- to be fair, time off instead of building a Frijters, Maikel Huiskamp, Bas Keet, language based on Haskell: C aSH. In his master’s the- 24. Li+1 sis, Erwin used thisL ilanguage to describe a cooperative Li-1 bias compared three mixers and did calculations and si- 18. hovercraft has its perks. Not being tired Vera Nauta, Jippe Rossen, Ewoud Masters thesis adaptive cruise control. In this article, you can read how. mulations. Bachelor after the day, and actually having time to Vissers. clean instead of cleaning as a nice SOG- moment. Cover Artist Robert Fennis Having free-time, sadly does not result in Presidential note On Location concentration. Comparing myself whilst Print writing this editorial with the Vonkers 3 Halfway there NXP Excursion 22 around me headbanging to the music and Gildeprint, Enschede changing the contrast of the calibrated screens, I am the most productive one Editorial office at this time. Of course, concentration al- E.T.S.V. Scintilla, University of Twente, News Master’s Thesis ways can be seen as a sine. It has high mo- Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede, 6 News for the Electrical Engineer Cooperative adaptive cruise control with CλaSH 24 ments and low moments. But that does 0031 53 489 2810 not result in bad results per se. Writing an 0031 53 489 1068 editorial is even with low concentration [email protected] doable. It just feels like a writers block. Education Meet de Vonk But it is kind of fun to feel like a writer Material 8 Ordering books Get to know us 30 who fails at writing. [email protected] But now to the more important things; the progress of the Vonk after a relaxing All members of Scintilla receive De Active member outing Junction day of playing games, reading and doing Vonk free of charge by post. 9 A word from the board Niels Leijen 32 some committee work. For me it was not going that fast, I spell-checked some Nothing in this magazine may be du- articles, and wrote this nicely done arti- plicated or copied without explicit cle. Next to me, there is a A4 long article permission from the editorial team of Main Article Internship being spellchecked for the last hour or so, De Vonk . 10 Electrical Engineering meets Chemistry Internship Nedap 34 and next to that the Puuzle is opened in 20-fold. Basically, the concentration is The editorial team reserves the right low, but the beer is open! to change or exclude material pro- Green Team Hobby Guus Frijters vided by third parties, in part or in 16 Over-engineering a horn Exit Night, Enter Light 36 whole. The opinions expressed in the articles are not necessarily shared by the editorial team. Bachelor Assignment Column ISSN 0925-5421 18 Comparison of upconversion RF mixer topologies Ultimate transfer 38 Photo pages Puuzle 4 year 33 20 39 year 33 5 edition 2 edition 2 news news 100 billion frames per cromirrors, each one seven by seven microns squared. The DMD is used to encode the second camera deve- image, after which the photons are reflected News for the back into a beam splitter. The beam splitter loped then sends the photons through the wide- ned slit of a streak camera where an electric At the Washington University in St. Louis a field is applied to change the height where team of biomedical engineers developed the the electrons fall on the CCD. This is done fastest 2-D camera in the world, which can since a normal streak camera only has a one electrical engineer capture up to 100 billion frames per second.