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  • Methods to improve the reliability and resiliency of near/sub-threshold digital circuits

    Creator:
    Crop, Joseph A.
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    Energy consumption is one of the primary bottlenecks to both large and small scale modern compute platforms. Reducing the operating voltage of digital circuits to voltages where the supply voltage is near or below the threshold of the transistors has recently gained attention as a method to reduce the energy...
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    synthesis. Second, two circuit-level techniques are also introduced that aim to improve the reliability

  • Enhanced accuracy time domain reflection and transmission measurements for IC interconnect characterization

    Creator:
    Smolyansky, Dmitry A.
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    The purpose of this study is to develop accuracy enhancement techniques for the Time Domain Reflection/Transmission (TDR/T) measurements including the analysis of the error sources for the Enhanced Accuracy TDR/T (EA-TDR/T). These TDR/T techniques are used for IC and IC package interconnect characterization and equivalent circuit model extraction, which are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for IC and IC package interconnect characterization and equivalent circuit model extraction, which

  • Concurrent error detection

    Creator:
    Gorshe, Steven Scott
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    Concurrent error detection (CED) is the detection of errors or faults in a circuit or data path concurrent with normal operation of that circuit. The general approach for CED is to calculate a check symbol for the inputs to the circuit under operation, predict the check symbol that will result...
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    of errors or faults in a circuit or data path concurrent with normal operation of that circuit. The

  • Reliability and hot-electron effects in analog and mixed-mode circuits

    Creator:
    Ge, David Ying
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    Reliability of sub-micron analog circuits is directly related to impact ionization and the subsequent changes in threshold voltage and drain current of n-MOSFET devices. This thesis presents theory of the hot-electron effects on the device characteristics and circuit performance, explores several approaches to improve performance at both the device and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    with composite n-MOSFETs provides a simple way to improve device and circuit reliability without

  • Measurement and analysis of soft error vulnerability of low-voltage logic and memory circuits

    Creator:
    Pawlowski, Robert
    Abstract:
    Scaling the supply voltage into the sub/near-threshold domain is one of the most effective methods for improving the energy efficiency of next-generation electronic microsystems. Unfortunately, the relationship between low-voltage operation and radiation-induced soft error rate is not widely known, as little research has been previously performed and reported for soft-error...
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    Dissertation
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    particles are still important for characterizing the overall reliability of an integrated circuit. For the

  • Design of a mini-computer controlled digital integrated circuit tester

    Creator:
    Fasang, Patrick Pad, 1941-
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    The purpose of the thesis is to design, construct, program, and test an automatic integrated circuit test system. The class of integrated circuits tested was restricted to digital integrated circuits. The general concept of testing a digital integrated circuit is based on the truth table of that circuit. A combination...
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    OF A MINI-COMPUTER CONTROLLED DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTER _Redacted for privacyAbstract

  • Integrated injection logic alarm system

    Creator:
    Kazmi, Saeed A.
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    The object of this work was to design and fabricate an integrated circuit using Integrated Injection Logic. Integrated Injection Logic (I[superscript 2] L) is a relatively new field and has many inherent advantages. These have been exploited in this work. Logic for the desired functions was designed and implemented in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: James C. Looney The object of this work was to design and fabricate an integrated circuit

  • A CMOS differential line driver

    Creator:
    Jiang, William
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    A short-circuit-protected line-driver circuit is particularly adapted for use in a CMOS differential line-driver system, where one line-driver circuit provides a true output signal, and another line-driver circuit provides a complementary false output signal. A short-circuit is sensed by measuring current through a secondary pull-up transistor, and disabling a primary...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . 4,291,357, Sept. 22, 1981. [4] L. Y. Chan, "Universal Differential Line Driver Integrated Circuit", U.S

  • Analysis and modeling of microstrip on-chip interconnects on silicon substrate

    Creator:
    Lan, Hai
    Abstract:
    The electrical performance of on-chip interconnects has become a limiting factor to the performance of modern integrated circuits including RFICs, mixed-signal circuits, as well as high-speed VLSI circuits due to increasing operating frequencies, chip areas, and integration densities. It is advantageous to have fast and accurate closed-form expressions for the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Silicon semiconductor integrated circuit technology has played a critical role for decades since the 1960

  • Analysis and modeling of coplanar on-chip interconnects on silicon substrates

    Creator:
    Luoh, Yi
    Abstract:
    The electrical behavior of on-chip interconnects has become a dominant factor in silicon-based high speed, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits. In particular, the frequency-dependent loss mechanisms in heavily-doped silicon substrates can have a large influence on the transmission characteristics of on-chip interconnects. To optimize the performance of the integrated circuit,...
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    characteristics of on-chip interconnects. To optimize the performance of the integrated circuit, efficient