A 7-12-Gb/s demultiplexer implemented with circuits for a high-speed field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is introduced in this paper. Since the first FPGA was released by Xilinx in 1985, FPGAs have become denser and ...
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A 7-12-Gb/s demultiplexer implemented with circuits for a high-speed field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is introduced in this paper. Since the first FPGA was released by Xilinx in 1985, FPGAs have become denser and more powerful. The first FPGA that operates in the microwave range was designed in 2000. Various methods, such as a new basic cell structure and multimode routing, are used to make that design faster and less power consuming. Sequential logic functions are analyzed and tested in this paper with a DEMUX implementation using these high-speed FPGA circuits. A chip measurement has shown that the FPGA can operate at a 12-GHz system clock when configured to perform sequential logic. A DEMUX that operates at 12 Gb/s is used here to demonstrate the potential for high-performance and low-power FPGA features.
It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue on Advanced Technologies and Reliable Design for Nanotechnology Systems to the IEEE Design & Test readership. We have selected four articles to cover ...
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It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue on Advanced Technologies and Reliable Design for Nanotechnology Systems to the IEEE Design & Test readership. We have selected four articles to cover a wide spectrum of techniques and applications for the reliable design of nanoscale systems; the techniques aim to circumvent the high defect rates and transient errors expected in advanced nanoscale technologies. Written by outstanding researchers in the field, these articles cover experimental and speculative topics. As with all special issues, these topics only represent the techniques and methodologies available today.
A logconcave likelihood is as important to proper statistical inference as a convex cost function is important to variational optimization. Quantization is often disregarded when writing likelihood models, ignoring th...
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A logconcave likelihood is as important to proper statistical inference as a convex cost function is important to variational optimization. Quantization is often disregarded when writing likelihood models, ignoring the limitations of the physical detectors used to collect the data. These two facts call for the question: would including quantization in likelihood models preclude logconcavity? are the true data likelihoods logconcave? We provide a general proof that the same simple assumption that leads to logconcave continuous-data likelihoods also leads to logconcave quantized-data likelihoods, provided that convex quantization regions are used.
A double word-line memory ROM (DWM-ROM) for use in gate arrays is described. It allows for an automatic layout by reducing the input pin count in the word lines by using two-step addressing. The advantage of this meth...
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A double word-line memory ROM (DWM-ROM) for use in gate arrays is described. It allows for an automatic layout by reducing the input pin count in the word lines by using two-step addressing. The advantage of this method has been verified by implementing a 16-bit microprocessor using an 8 K-gate array, based on a gate-isolated cell configuration, employing 1.5-/spl mu/m double-metal CMOS technology. The 16-bit /spl times/ 64-word ROM in the processor saves 30% of the transistor area due to the DWM-ROM.
logic synthesis and hardware implementation of fuzzy controllers are introduced in this paper. The logic synthesis reduces the fuzzy controller to a set of Boolean equations. A software is specially developed for this...
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logic synthesis and hardware implementation of fuzzy controllers are introduced in this paper. The logic synthesis reduces the fuzzy controller to a set of Boolean equations. A software is specially developed for this purpose. The hardware implementation is carried out using Field programmable Gate arrays (FPGAs). A speed of over 50 M FLIPS is achieved. The speed is independent of the number of rules of the fuzzy controller.
The article describes the effect of fine mineral fillers (aerosil, bentonite, mica, and talc) on the properties of electret materials based on polylactide. Compositions of the polymer with 4% fillers content showed th...
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The article describes the effect of fine mineral fillers (aerosil, bentonite, mica, and talc) on the properties of electret materials based on polylactide. Compositions of the polymer with 4% fillers content showed the best performances. Loading of the fillers results in a slight increase of specific volume resistivity of the samples. IR spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry show no significant change in chemical structure and glass transition temperature and flow (melting) point of the filler-loaded polylactide. Addition of fillers reduces melt flow index (MFI) and elongation at a break with almost no change in ultimate tensile strength.
A testing method for EEPLA's is presented. The method requires small amount of extra hardware and provides complete fault coverage. This method exploits the fact that each crosspoint can be reprogrammed in EEPLA. ...
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A testing method for EEPLA's is presented. The method requires small amount of extra hardware and provides complete fault coverage. This method exploits the fact that each crosspoint can be reprogrammed in EEPLA. To our knowledge, this is the first algorithmic test method applicable to EEPLA's. In the proposed approach, all single and multiple crosspoint faults, stuck-at faults, and bridging faults are detectable. The test set is simple and is easy to derive.
Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer prepared by the catalyzed ring opening polymerization of lactide. An ideal catalyst should enable a sequential polymerization of the lactide enantiomers to afford ste...
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Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer prepared by the catalyzed ring opening polymerization of lactide. An ideal catalyst should enable a sequential polymerization of the lactide enantiomers to afford stereoblock copolymers with predetermined number and lengths of blocks. We describe a magnesium based catalyst that combines very high activity with a true-living nature, which gives access to PLA materials of unprecedented microstructures. Full consumption of thousands of equivalents of L-LA-within minutes gave PLLA of expected molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. Precise PLLA-b-PDLA diblock copolymers having block lengths of up to 500 repeat units were readily prepared within 30 min, and their thermal characterization revealed a stereocomplex phase only with very high melting transitions and melting enthalpies. The one pot sequential polymerization was extended up to precise hexablocks having "dialed-in" block lengths.
An area efficient synthesis procedure targeting complete robust path delay fault testability (RPDFT) of scan-based circuits is described, It includes an efficient untestability identification algorithm for two-level a...
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An area efficient synthesis procedure targeting complete robust path delay fault testability (RPDFT) of scan-based circuits is described, It includes an efficient untestability identification algorithm for two-level and multilevel circuits. The implementation of the algorithm uses tautology checking instead of test pattern generation (TPG) resulting in a speed-up factor of 5 in comparison to today's fastest TPG methods. Exploiting that untestability identification capability, factorization is improved to first combining only those product terms in which the same literal is untestable and checking whether this eliminates the untestable fault. If not, cardinality matching is used to add the best-suited term that removes the untestable fault. Our method has been found to give better results in terms of RPDFT and area than reported before, In contrast to previously published papers, we found that technology mapping using tree covering does not always preserve RPDFT.
An area efficient and parasitic insensitive technique for the implementation of a field programmable analogue array is proposed. The connections between configurable analogue blocks are realised using MOSFET transcond...
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An area efficient and parasitic insensitive technique for the implementation of a field programmable analogue array is proposed. The connections between configurable analogue blocks are realised using MOSFET transconductors. The conductance is controlled by varying the gate voltages defined by a multivalued memory system or external/internal signals.
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