This paper very shortly describes some hardware solutions of central processor (CPU) of BESM-6. CPU had very deep instruction pipe with an associative buffer for instructions and an associative buffer for data with original protocol. Logical and storage elements used only domestic discrete components. Main logical unit based on differential amplifier with pyramid of rich diode logic and parapha...

This paper gives important features of CMOS and BiCMOS four-diodes direct coupled tuneable resistance. Circuit performances of three resistance topologies are explored and compared with the traditional CMOS tuneable transresistance designed from a one-stage operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). Simulations results have been realised using nominal parameters of the AMS 0.8μm CMOS and BiC...

A microfluidic system to sense chemical and biological analytes using membranes dissolvable by the analyte is demonstrated. The scheme to detect the dissolution of the membrane is based on the difference in optical absorption of the membrane and the fluidic sample being assayed. The presence of the analyte in the sample chemically cleaves the membrane and causes the sample to flow into the memb...

Intense x-ray sources coupled with efficient, high-speed x-ray imagers are opening new possibilities of high-speed time resolved experiments. The silicon pixel array detector ~PAD! is an extremely flexible technology which is currently being developed as a fast imager. We describe the architecture of the Cornell PAD, which is capable of operating with submicrosecond frame times. This 100 392 pi...

A novel, pulse-modulated spectroscopic system for measuring fractional leghemoglobin oxygenation and infected cell O(2) concentration (O(i)) in intact attached nodules of soybean (Glycine max) is described. The system is noninvasive and uses a pulsed (1000 Hertz) light-emitting diode coupled to an optical fiber to illuminate the nodule with light at 660 nanometer. A second optical fiber receive...

We investigate high brightness pumping of a multi-kW Yb fiber amplifier in a bi-directional pumping configuration. Each pump outputs 2 kW in a 200 μm, 0.2 NA multi-mode fiber. Gold-coated specialty gain fibers, with 17 m MFD and 5-dB/meter pump absorption, have been developed. The maximum fiber amplifier output power is 3.1 kW, limited by multi-mode instability, with 90% O-O efficiency 12 GHz ...