The results of comparative DC simulation tests confirm that a proposed modification to the feedback circuit of a Flipped Voltage Follower (FVF), to produce a type of ‘Folded’ Flipped Voltage Follower (FFVF), is capable of maximising the linear DC operating range for given values of supply rail voltage and operating current.

Abstract— This paper presents a new tracking circuit design without standby leakage current issue for 2.5V/3.3V tolerant I/O buffer, which is suitable for the I/O cells in the mixedvoltage applications with different driving capabilities. One set of mixed-voltage I/O cell with the new proposed 2.5V/3.3V tolerant I/O buffer circuit has been designed and drawn in a 0.13-μm salicided CMOS process....

Many works have studied the negative impact of slow start on the performance of short transfers. Some works propose to accelerate the window increase during this phase in order to improve the performance especially on satellite links. Others propose to set the slow start threshold at the beginning of the connection to a more accurate value in order to avoid losses. But, these works didn’t accou...

Determining interdependencies and cascading failure modes in critical infrastructures is a complex problem that is exacerbated further by the diverging characteristics of the interconnected infrastructure types. Services in some types of infrastructure such as telecommunications or the electric grid are provided and consumed instantly. Others, notably oil and gas but also other infrastructures ...

An architectural technique is proposed to reduce power dissipation in conventional caches. Our technique is based on the observation of cache access locality: current access is likely to touch the same cache set including the tags as the last access. We show that considerable amount of power driving the cache tag and data banks can be saved if this cache access locality is fully exploited. This...

background: whispering gallery modes (wgm) biosensors are ultrasensitive systems that can measure amount of adsorbed layer onto the micro-cavity surface. they have many applications including protein, peptide growth, dna and bacteria detection, molecular properties measurements and specific interaction and drug table recognitions due to their high sensitivity, compact size and label free sensin...

Horizontal gene transfer has been increasingly documented between eukaryotes, but a new study suggests a much larger role for horizontal gene transfer in physiological adaption through the transfer of photosynthetic pathway genes.