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Carotid bifurcation is one of the most important bifurcations in human body which has a lot of curvature in some people. The common carotid artery bifurcates into an internal carotid artery (ICA) and an external carotid artery (ECA). The incidence of stenosis in carotid bifurcation and in particular in the internal carotid artery is of special importance. In the United States of America by 2006, nearly 700000 strokes occur each year, with about 160000 deaths and 20 to 30% of strokes are caused by stenotic carotid that cost estimated at $160 billion. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate in hemodynamic factors of blood flow such as velocity variation, vortex patterns, shear stress and... 

ADC is one of the key functional blocks of any mixed signal system and therefore must be optimally designed concerning power, performance, resolution and silicon area. Among different architectures have been employed up to now, successive approximation register ADCs are known as the ones with lower power, more simplicity and lower sampling rate. Benefiting from scaling down the CMOS technology results in higher sampling rate and lower power SAR ADCs replacing other types of ADCs. To achieve the desired ADC performance, efforts are usually focused on the improvement of circuit techniques as well as on the introduction of new or combinational architectures based on SAR ADCs. This thesis aims...