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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Application-specific integrated circuit"”.
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The adoption of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology by the UK manufacturing base
… conclusions it has been necessary to:- • Define Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology and review its history • Review that nature of the UK SME base and identify why they should use ASICs • Review the UK, European and World ASIC markets • Analyse the nature of the UK ASIC …
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A CMOS-based Hartmann-Shack Sensor for Real-Time Adaptive Optical Applications
Adaptive optical systems have a growing field of applications in opthalmology. In every adaptive system there is the need for a sensor and an actuator. The Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor uses the displacement of spots in the focal plane of a lenslet array for subsequent calculation of the …
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Trajectory Sensor and Readout Electronics of a Cosmic Dust Telescope
An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is developed for the processing of electrostatic signals from a trajectory sensor for cosmic dust. The detector is assembled of multiple wire electrodes which allow the determination of direction, speed and charge of cosmic dust. The circuit …
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High level behavioural modelling of boundary scan architecture.
… Test Architecture automatically into an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The tool requires the original design (the ASIC) to be described in VHDL-IEEE 1076 Hardware Description Language. The tool consists of the two major elements: i) A parsing and insertion algorithm …
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Improving Field-Programmable Gate Array Scaling Through Wire Emulation
… and performance, they continue to lag behind application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) performance and power consumption. As manufacturing technology improves and IC feature size decreases, FPGAs may further lag behind ASICs due to interconnection scalability issues. To improve FPGA …
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Extensible Real-Time Sensor and Test Interface for a System-on-Chip
… thesis describes the development of a printed circuit board (PCB) that enables connecting external sensors and a host computer to a custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). The ASIC, previously developed by the Low-Energy Autonomy and Navigation research group, is designed for …
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Investigation of Non-Traditional Applications of the Physical Level in Reconfigurable Computing
… of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design processes to enable additional research avenues. In order to accomplish these projects, Tools for Open Reconfigurable Computing (TORC) is utilized to provide a robust environment for circuit …
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Partitioning of large HDL ASIC designs into multiple FPGA devices for prototyping and verification
The ASIC (Application specific Integrated Circuit) designs grow continuously bigger and bigger. This causes dramatic increase in the simulation run time. It is very hard to simulate these designs because the simulation time has risen from hours to days and weeks. Hardware Embedded Simulation (HES) …
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A low dispersion 2-GHz comparator
… discipline is being met on the many pins of the integrated circuit. As the error in the comparator is lowered, the VLSI production yield is greatly increased because of greater certainty of the measurements. The comparator described within is designed to test a variety of CMOS logic levels at the …
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Framework for Hardware Agility on FPGAs
As hardware applications become increasingly complex, the supporting technology needs to evolve and adapt to the demands. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit, General Purpose Processor, and System on Chip are the preferred devices for solving computational …
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Commercialization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
… that employ the processes developed in the integrated circuit (IC) and semiconductor industries to construct electro- mechanical devices. In the case of Microopticelectromechanical systems (MOEMS), optical elements are also integrated into these devices. MEMS technology holds the promise of …
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Comparison of the tally numbering system to traditional arithmetic systems in field programmable gate arrays
… that are required for machine learning, more specifically neural networks. The use of different architectures, implementing different types of numbering and mathematics systems is explored in hopes of accelerating mathematical functions. The heterogeneous computing platform explored in this …
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FPGA Prototyping Framework on ARROW SoCKit Board with Xillybus Interface and Standard FIFO
… or in device re-spins as in the case of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. Furthermore, a system-on-chip (SoC) architecture that integrates traditional processors with FPGA fabrics enables a hybrid reconfigurable architecture that the FPGA may be re-purposed as needed …
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Circuit design for logic automata
… a "pick-and-place" design flow for fast ALA circuit layout. The work flow gracefully aligns the description of computer programs and circuit realizations, providing a simpler and more scalable solution for Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs, which are currently limited by …
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HE-MT6D: A Network Security Processor with Hardware Engine for Moving Target IPv6 Defense (MT6D) over 1 Gbps IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
… physical gateway device, built as embedded Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), or serve as a System on Chip (SoC) integrated submodule.
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Asic Design of RF Energy Harvester Using 0.13UM CMOS Technology
… batteries. The energy harvesting amplifier circuit is designed in Global Foundry 0.13um CMOS technology using Cadence integrated circuit design tools. This Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is intended to have as small a footprint as possible so that it can be easily integrated …
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Energy efficient links and routers for multi-processor computer systems
… routers and interconnection networks using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) flow in a commercially available IBM 90nm process technology. This thesis shows that multiplexer routers are more area and power efficient compared to matrix routers since matrix routers quickly exhibit …
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FleXilicon: a New Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Architecture for Multimedia and Wireless Communications
… for multimedia and wireless communication applications due to the demand for high quality services and frequent evolution of standards. The ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) approach provides an area efficient, high performance solution, but is inflexible. In contrast, the …
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Hybrid pixel-waveform semiconductor detectors: novel detector readout for semiconductor pet imaging of small animal neurodegenerative models
… while a lack of clear understanding of the application provides an uncertain instrument performance requirement. Therefore, this work lays the contextual importance of developing nuclear imaging instrumentation for application specific purposes by focused discussion on preclinical …
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Engineering Scalable Quantum Systems From First-Principles to Large-Scale Control
… the path to scaling the number of color centers integrated in these devices to the thousands or millions needed for advanced quantum networking and computing applications remains unclear. In particular, the requirement for highly coherent quantum operations both necessitates operation at …
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