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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Integrated circuit (IC)"”.
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Evaluation of the practicality of system efficient ESD design
… characterization of the external pins of an integrated circuit. Models extracted from the data are used to simulate the pin level response of the integrated circuit (IC) to an IEC 61000-4-2 discharge. Electrostatic discharge (ESD) gun zaps are applied to the test board; simulated and measured …
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Modeling simulation and design guidelines for EOS/ESD protection circuits in CMOS technologies
Electrical Overstress (EOS) and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) are major causes for integrated circuit (IC) field failures. Industry surveys indicate that nearly 50% of all IC field failures can be attributed to EOS/ESD events. The susceptibility to EOS/ESD increases as the minimum feature size in …
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Carbon nanotube interconnects for IC chips
… copper-based technologies as interconnects for Integrated Circuit (IC) chips. Being ballistic conductors, CNTs are capable of carrying higher current densities of up to 10¹⁰A/cm² and high thermal conductivity. This thesis examines the technological aspect of carbon nanotubes - how these tubes …
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Nanoscale membranes for electromechanical systems
Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) are a technology field that branched out of semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing about four decades ago, and one that forms the backbone of the Internet of Things era. However, as MEMS devices are becoming ubiquitous, they are …
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Using cold spray to package electronic implants
Due to improvements in electronics manufacturing, electronic implants keep decreasing in size and are moving towards integrated-circuit (IC) based designs. As implant electronics become significantly smaller with the use of ICs, traditional implant packaging become a limiting factor on implant …
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A method for characterization of single-event latchup technologies as a function of geometric variation
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is the dominant integrated circuit (IC) technology in modern electronics systems. As CMOS comprises of p-channel and n-channel transistors, there are parasitic PNPN paths that act as cross-coupled bipolar transistors capable of creating …
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Non-invasive IC tomography using spatial correlations
We introduce a new methodology for post-silicon characterization of the gate-level variations in a manufactured Integrated Circuit (IC). The estimated characteristics are based on the power and the delay measurements that are affected by the process variations. The power (delay) variations are …
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Development of a Sensor Readout Integrated Circuit Towards a Contact Lens for Wireless Intraocular Pressure Monitoring
<p>This design covers the design of an integrated circuit (IC) in support of the active contact lens project at Cal Poly. The project aims to monitor intraocular eye pressure (IOP) to help diagnose and treat glaucoma, which is expected affect 6.3 million Americans by 2050. The IC is designed using …
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Asynchronous 3D (Async3D): Design Methodology and Analysis of 3D Asynchronous Circuits
<p>This dissertation focuses on the application of 3D integrated circuit (IC) technology on asynchronous logic paradigms, mainly NULL Convention Logic (NCL) and Multi-Threshold NCL (MTNCL). It presents the Async3D tool flow and library for NCL and MTNCL 3D ICs. It also analyzes NCL and MTNCL …
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Macromodeling and demonstration of the LT6600 amplifier and lowpass filter
… in Linear Technology Corporation's LT6600 integrated circuit (IC). The thesis is split into two parts, representing two facets of how engineers will evaluate the LT6600: by simulation and in the laboratory. The LT6600-10 macromodel and its design methodology is presented, as well as …
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Analysis of MOS Current Mode Logic (MCML) and Implementation of MCML Standard Cell Library for Low-Noise Digital Circuit Design
<p>MOS current mode logic (MCML) offers low noise digital circuits that reduce noise that can cripple analog components in mixed-signal integrated circuits, when compared to CMOS digital circuits. An MCML standard cell library was developed for the Cadence Virtuoso Integrated Circuit (IC) design …
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Polynomial time optimal algorithm for stencil row planning in e-beam lithography
… (EBL) is a very promising candidate for integrated circuit (IC) fabrication beyond the 10 nm technology node. To address its throughput issue, the Character Projection (CP) technique has been proposed, and its stencil planning can be optimized with awareness of overlapping characters. …
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Dynamic scan chains : a novel architecture to lower the cost of VLSI test
Fast developments in semiconductor industry have led to smaller and cheaper integrated circuit (IC) components. As the designs become larger and more complex, larger amount of test data is required to test them. This results in longer test application times, therefore, increasing cost of testing …
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Design and implementation of a reconfigurable data acquisition integrated circuit
… engineers have attempted to develop electronic systems able to extract and process the real world signals and turn them into useful data. Initially this development was done using analog technology. However, since the digital signal processor has developed rapidly due to integrated circuit …
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Design and Fabrication Techniques of Devices for Embedded Power Active Contact Lens
<p>This thesis designed and fabricated various devices that were interfaced to an IC for an active contact lens that notifies the user of an event by detection of an external wireless signal. The contact lens consisted of an embedded antenna providing communication with a 2.4GHz system, as well as …
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Commercialization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), at their core are a set of technologies 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 …
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Design of optoelectronic activation, local memory and weighting circuits for Compact Integrated Optoelectronic Neural (COIN) Co-processor
The Compact Integrated Optoelectronic Neural (COIN) Co-processor, a prototype of artificial neural network implemented in hybrid optics and optoelectronic hardware, aims to implement a multi-layer neural network algorithm by performing parallel and efficient neural computations. In this thesis, we …
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RF MEMS switches : survey and analysis
Microelectromechanical systems known as MEMS, are an enabling technology that describe a field capable of creating very small electromechanical devices with feature sizes on the order of microns, or 10-6 meters. MEMS technology has received considerable attention recently as a way to produce …
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ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS AND DESIGN STUDY FOR HETEROGENEOUS MONOLITHIC 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Technology scaling predicted by Moore's law is gradually slowing down and new alternatives to silicon-based transistors are being explored. Some of the most promising solutions make use of materials such as carbon nanotubes or ferroelectric layers in the gate stack. While such materials bring …
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Applying Universal Verification Methodology on a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/ Transmitter design
… transmitter (UART) is a computer hardware device that is used to transform user data to parallel and serial forms. The UART protocol is typically integrated in an Integrated Circuit (IC) which is used for serial communication over a computer or a peripheral device. The UART protocol accepts …
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