Aggressive reduction of timing margins, called timing speculation, is an effective way of reducing the supply voltage for a pipeline circuit and thereby its power consumption. However, probability of timing error increases with the voltage scaling and hence, the errors must be corrected with small cycle penalty. Here introduce an improved Razor approach by replacing flip flop by pulsed latch, w...

"Lockout" is an important method for hazardous energy control to protect humans working at a place where they may be injured by unexpected release of hazardous energy. Actually, this administrative control is used in order to compensate for the incompleteness of the ZMS (Zero Mechanical State). This paper proposes the basic requirements for the "Lockout" used for machine maintenance work by app...

Excitation of 10-GHz gigawatt-range radiation pulses ~ 1 ns long in relativistic backward-wave oscillators with an elongated periodic slow-wave system has been studied. Accelerators based on a compact pulsed-periodic high-voltage generator type SINUS-160 and a generator employing an inductive energy storage, a semiconductor opening switch and a peaking hydrogen-filled spark gap have been develo...

We demonstrate an optically tunable graphene saturable absorber to manipulate the laser operation in pulsed fiber laser system. Owing to the strongly enhanced evanescent field interaction with monolayer graphene, we could realize an efficient control of modulation depth in the graphene saturable absorber by optical means through cross absorption modulation method. By integrating the tunable gra...