A historical sketch of microwave integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, and their application is presented in this paper.

Currently, Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits and the resulting digital systems are widely used in almost all areas of human’s life. To ensure the validity of these systems, error-free VLSI circuits are becoming more and more important. With the increasing complexity of VLSI circuits, the cost for the test on VLSI circuits has risen dramatically. So it is necessary to reduce the cost o...

We propose simple analog MOS circuits producing one-dimensional optical flows aiming at the realization of compact motion-sensing circuits. In the proposed circuit, the optical flow is computed by a number of local motion sensors which are based on biological motion detectors. Mimicking the structure of biological motion detectors made the circuit structure quite simple, compared with conventio...

Recently, sophisticated fluidic circuits with hundreds of independent valves have been built by using multi-layer soft-lithography to mold elastomers. However, this shrinking of microfluidic circuits has not been matched by a corresponding miniaturization of the actuation and interfacing elements that control the circuits; while the fluidic circuits are small ( approximately 10-100 micron wide ...

High-level synthesis (HLS) is utilized for high-performance and energy-efficient heterogeneous systems designing. HLS assist in field-programmable gate array circuits designing where hardware implementations are refined replaced target device. However, the power-process-voltage-temperature-delay (PPVTD) variation VLSI undergoes many problems reduced performance. In order to address these proble...

Monolithic integrated millimeter-wave circuits based on silicon and SiGe are emerging as an attractive option in the field of millimeter-wave communications and millimeterwave sensorics. The combination of active devices with passive planar structures, including also antenna elements, allows single-chip realizations of complete millimeter-wave front-ends. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art...

The microstrip line is widely used as the planar transmission line in microwave integrated circuits and high speed interconnecting buses. In this paper, we use COMSOL multiphysics to study multiconductor microstrip systems on microwave integrated circuits. We specifically illustrate the modeling of open four and five conductors systems. We successfully demonstrated the calculation of the capaci...

Due to the lack of a secure supply chain, it is not possible to fully trust the integrity of electronic devices. Current methods of verifying integrated circuits are either destructive or non-specific. Here we expand upon prior work, in which we proposed a novel method of reverse engineering the finite state machines that integrated circuits are built upon in a non-destructive and highly specif...