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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Systems on a chip."”.
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Scaling trapped-ion quantum computers with CMOS-integrated state readout
Quantum information processing (QIP) has emerged as a powerful new computing paradigm as traditional Moore's law scaling slows due to skyrocketing costs of shrinking feature sizes, interconnects becoming the dominant source of energy consumption and delay as transistor critical dimensions fall …
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Tunneling and ferroelectric based transistors for energy efficient electronics
… data-intensive energy efficient ubiquitous electronics. Emerging materials (i.e. low dimensional nanomaterials, novel dielectric/ferroelectric materials) show great promise to overcome the limits of the Si CMOS technology for specific applications. This thesis studies the prospects of two …
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Energy scalability of on-chip interconnection networks
On-chip interconnection networks (OCN) such as point-to-point networks and buses form the communication backbone in multiprocessor systems-on-a-chip, multicore processors, and tiled processors. OCNs consume significant portions of a chip's energy budget, so their energy analysis early in the design …
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Transfer Printing and Micro-Scale Hybrid Materials Systems
… circuits, has impacted society in revolutionary ways. These integrated circuits are characterized by huge numbers of small electronic devices manufactured on semiconductor wafers. Some emerging technologies will require assemblies of these micro/nano-devices on substrates that are very …
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3D-SoftChip: A novel 3D vertically integrated adaptive computing system [thesis]
… must be overcome to resolve problems in current systems. The incredibly increased nonrecurring engineering (NRE) cost, abruptly shortened Time-to- Market (ITA) period and ever widening design productive gaps are good examples illustrating the problems in current systems. To cope with these …
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System-level performance evaluation of three-dimensional integrated circuits
As the critical dimensions in VLSI design continue to shrink, system performance of integrated circuits (ICs) will be increasingly dominated by interconnect delay [1]. For the technology generations approaching 50 nm and beyond, innovative system architectures and interconnect technologies will be …
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Development of Robust Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits in the Presence of Process- Voltage-Temperature Variations
Continued improvements of transceiver systems-on-a-chip play a key role in the advancement of mobile telecommunication products as well as wireless systems in biomedical and remote sensing applications. This dissertation addresses the problems of escalating CMOS process variability and system …
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Stochastic computation for energy-efficient robust ultra-low-power platforms
Next-generation ubiquitous computing promises new levels in immersion and seamless technology integration enabled through a profusion of embedded signal processing (DSP)-heavy ultra-low-power (ULP) platforms. This dissertation proposes an holistic integrated stochastic computing approach to enable …
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Toward an active CMOS electronics-photonics platform based on subwavelength structured devices
The scaling trend of microelectronics over the past 50 years, quantified by Moore’s Law, has faced insurmountable bottlenecks, necessitating the use of optical communication with its high bandwidth and energy efficiency to further improve computing performance. Silicon photonics, compatible with …