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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to my supervisors Mark Irwin and Stephen Bums for their ideas, guidance
and support in this project. I am thankful to Sergio Hidalgo for the many discussions we
had about aspects of the system and for designing the Resource Interface Board for the
system. My gratitude also goes to Jerry Riddick for his discussion of instrumentation
amplifier testing, to Susan Madaras for performing miraculous soldering jobs on my
printed circuit board, to Joline Albaugh for all her help with obtaining components, and
to the entire High Performance Analog Product Optimization team at Texas Instruments
for an incredible learning experience.
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