In this paper a buck-boost converter with adaptive voltage positioning (AVP) control technique is researched. According to the small-signal model of the converter, a constant output impedance required in AVP control i...
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Multi-channel media access control (MAC) is important in wireless sensor networks because it allows parallel data transmissions and resists external wireless interference. Existing multi-channel MAC protocols, however...
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(纸本)9781467364300
Multi-channel media access control (MAC) is important in wireless sensor networks because it allows parallel data transmissions and resists external wireless interference. Existing multi-channel MAC protocols, however, do not efficiently support delay-sensitive applications that require reliable and timely data transmissions. In addition, multi-channel operation is inherently deficient for supporting multi-hop broadcasting, due to independent waking-up schedules on sensors. To address these issues, we present a routing-enhanced multi-channel MAC (RM-MAC) which allows nodes to coordinately select their channel polling times based on cross-layer routing information. RM-MAC also supports a ripple broadcast mechanism which achieves efficient multi-hop broadcast among sensors. Simulation results show that RM-MAC provides significant improvement over the MuCHMAC [1], in terms of end-to-end delay, under a wide range of traffic loads including both unicast and broadcast traffic.
Approximate circuit design is an emerging paradigm in which a designer deliberately changes the specified Boolean function to reduce area, delay, and/or power consumption of a circuit. This paper focuses on the synthe...
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Approximate circuit design is an emerging paradigm in which a designer deliberately changes the specified Boolean function to reduce area, delay, and/or power consumption of a circuit. This paper focuses on the synthesis of approximate logic circuits (or ALS) under a given error constraint. In particular, we consider ALS for a two-level design under an error rate constraint. A dynamic programming-based algorithm is proposed to find a nearly optimal approximate function by identifying the most promising set of cubes to be added to the on-set of the original function. Then, an off-the-shelf two-level logic synthesis tool is applied to further optimize the sum-of-product (SOP) expression. The experimental results show that the literal reduction is close to the optimal solution when the error rate constraint is tight and that more than 50% literal reduction is achieved for error rate below 0.8% for an 8-bit adder and a square root circuit.
Power Line Communication (PLC) is a communication technology that uses the existing distribution power grids for data transmission. Because of the high attenuation in the power line channel, transmission between two d...
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Power Line Communication (PLC) is a communication technology that uses the existing distribution power grids for data transmission. Because of the high attenuation in the power line channel, transmission between two distant nodes must be done through relay technology. What's more, since strong noise exists in power grids the packet error rate may be high even when two nodes are close. This paper proposes a distributed relay scheme based on network coding that is designed for this high packet loss environment. Simulation results show that the proposed approach performs better than a fixed-path relay scheme in which only an end-to-end acknowledgement is enabled.
This paper presents a high speed and low distortion sampler with two-channel time-interleaved sampler with track-and-hold amplifier (THA). The THA is based on switched source-follower with active inductor load such th...
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An ultra-low quiescent current low-dropout regulator with small output voltage variations and improved load regulation is presented in this paper. It makes use of dynamically-biased shunt feedback as the buffer stage ...
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An ultra-low quiescent current low-dropout regulator with small output voltage variations and improved load regulation is presented in this paper. It makes use of dynamically-biased shunt feedback as the buffer stage and the LDO regulator can be stable for all load conditions. The proposed structure also employs a momentarily current-boosting circuit to reduce the output voltage to the normal value when output is switched from full load to no load. The whole circuit is designed in a 0.18 μm CMOS technology with a quiescent current of 550 nA. The maximum output voltage variation is less than 20 mV when used with 1 μF external capacitor.
This paper presents a novel 2.5D multicore processor which consists of 3 distinct silicon dies: a processor die with 8 MIPS-cores, a 16kB SRAM die, and an accelerator die for multimedia and communication applications....
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This paper presents a novel 2.5D multicore processor which consists of 3 distinct silicon dies: a processor die with 8 MIPS-cores, a 16kB SRAM die, and an accelerator die for multimedia and communication applications. These dies are interconnected into multi-modes, like core-core (up to 32 cores), core-memory (4x storage capacity) and core-accelerator (4.4x speedup in H.264 decoder), to establish a scalable and reconfigurable platform with less tape-out die area cost. A pair of 8Gbps SerDes is custom designed for each of the 12 inter-die communication channels, achieving a 2.5D I/O bandwidth of 24GB/s. The processor was implemented in GF 65nm process, and operates at 500MHz under 1.2V supply, with 1.08W power dissipation.
The scattering mechanisms are investigated for MOSFETs with gate length varying from 1000 nm to 32 nm in this paper. Although the carrier mobility should theoretically be independent on the gate length, using the univ...
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(纸本)9781479932849
The scattering mechanisms are investigated for MOSFETs with gate length varying from 1000 nm to 32 nm in this paper. Although the carrier mobility should theoretically be independent on the gate length, using the universal mobility model it is found that as the gate length reduces the Coulombic scattering decreases while the phonon scattering and the surface roughness scattering increase with a decreasing effective mobility. It is revealed that the decreasing effective substrate doping concentration N a related to the reduced threshold voltage V t is the dominant reason. However, the dominant mechanism varies from the Coulombic scattering for the long gate length to the phonon scattering for the short gate length at medium effective field (about 1 MV/cm).
The effect of glycine on CMP of Mo using H 2 O 2 based alkaline slurry is investigated. It is found that both removal rate (RR) and static etch rate(SER)decrease after adding glycine into the alkaline slurry. Higher ...
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(纸本)9781479932849
The effect of glycine on CMP of Mo using H 2 O 2 based alkaline slurry is investigated. It is found that both removal rate (RR) and static etch rate(SER)decrease after adding glycine into the alkaline slurry. Higher concentration of glycine results in a lower RR. The in-situ OCP experiment results reveal that after adding glycine into the slurry, the chemical reaction becomes weaker and less amount of oxide forms. The mechanism of glycine's inhibition to CMP of Mo is due to physical adsorption between the glycine molecule and the Mo surface.
First-principle calculations were performed to investigate the resistance of nickel-ZGNRs(with H-terminated or bare edges) junctions. The edge modification contributes to reduce the resistance of the contact and cause...
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(纸本)9781479932849
First-principle calculations were performed to investigate the resistance of nickel-ZGNRs(with H-terminated or bare edges) junctions. The edge modification contributes to reduce the resistance of the contact and causes the the negative resistance effect to disappear in our investigations.
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