The complexity of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) is continuously increasing. Consequently chip-design becomes more and more challenging. To handle this complexity for a fast ASIC development, the existing design process has to become more efficient. To achieve this, we used an approach based on a multi-agent simulation. A mutli-agent system is an intuitive way to represent a t...

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Hardware Trojans are an increasingly significant threat to the integrated circuit (IC) industry in both commercial and military fields due to the progress of globalization and the rapidly improving IC manufacturing technology in various countries. Because of global economic pressures, the development and fabrication of advanced ICs are often outsourced offshore in order to reduce cost. As a res...

The P1149.4 mixed-signal boundary scan standard is demonstrated with a CMOS integrated circuit. Design issues and characterization data are presented.

The lithography process is the critical step in the fabrication of nanostructures for integrated circuit manufacturing. It accounts for one third of the costs of manufacturing integrated circuits. The rapid transition to smaller microelectronic feature sizes involves the introduction of new lithography technologies, new photoresist materials, and tighter processes specifications. This transitio...

Many auditory theorists consider the temporal adaptation of the auditory nerve a key aspect of speech coding in the auditory periphery. Experiments with models of auditory localization and pitch perception also suggest temporal adaptation is an important element of practical auditory processing. I have designed, fabricated, and successfully tested an analog integrated circuit that models many a...

The end of the 19 century brought about a change in the dynamics of computing by the development of the microprocessor. Huge bedroom size computers began being replaced by portable, smaller sized desktops. Today the world is dominated by silicon, which has circumscribed chip development for computers through microprocessors. Majority of the integrated circuits that are manufactured at present a...

New developments and results in the area of process simulation are reviewed. These results have increased significantly our understanding of the underlying processes that govern integrated circuit (IC) fabrication techniques,

The short and long term reliability of National Semiconductor’s interface circuits, like any integrated circuit, is very dependent on its environmental condition. Beyond the mechanical/environmental factors, nothing has a greater influence on this reliability than the electrical and thermal stress seen by the integrated circuit. Both of these stress issues are specifically addressed on every in...