The integrated circuit revolution has impacted virtually all fields of engineering. The main driving force behind this revolution is Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistor technology. As CMOS integrated circuit “chips” have come to dominate analog and digital electronics, introductory electronics courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering programs have evolved to place gr...

COMAIDE is a toolkit for user-system cooperation through joint multi-focal graph browsing. It supports cooperative force-directed layout management, concurrent with dialogue handling, for heterogeneous multi-layered 3D interactive diagrams. The layout manager's intu-itively`natural' animations of multi-layered 3D graph drawings support: 1. Cooperative tidying of user-manipulable 3D layout; 2. O...

A new current-mode fuzzy-membership function circuit is proposed. The circuit has a very compact and simple architecture based on the simultaneous use of winnerand loser-take-all topologies. The circuit has also the advantage of easily adjusting generated membership function characteristics such as center or mean and width with a straightforward application of respective input currents. It is s...

Lager is an integrated CAD system for algorithmspecific IC design. It consists of a behavioral mapper and a silicon assembler. To generate a chip from a behavioral description, the user specifies both the behavioral description and a parameterized structural description. The behavioral mapper maps the behavior onto the parameterized structure to produce microcode and parameter values. The silic...

We proposed the amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (a-Si:H TFT) pixel electrode circuit with current-scaling function that can be used for active-matrix organic light-emitting displays (AM-OLEDs). In contrast to the conventional current-mirror circuit, this circuit with cascaded storage capacitors can provide a high data-to-OLED current ratio without increasing the aSi:H TFT size. Moreover,...

This paper presents a low-power soft error-hardened latch suitable for reliable circuit operation. The proposed circuit uses redundant feedback loop to protect latch against soft error on the internal nodes, and transmission gate and Schmitt-trigger circuit to filter out transient resulting from particle hit on combinational logic. The proposed circuit has low power consumption with negative se...

A new approach for designing an ultra wideband (UWB) CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) is presented. The aim of this design is to achieve a low noise figure, reasonable power gain and low power consumption in 3.1-10.6 GHz. Also, the figure of merit (FOM) is significantly improved at 180nm technology compared to the other state-of-the-art designs. Improved π-network and T-network are used to obt...