The Setting: Computer science and engineering is undergoing a revolution. Computationally very powerful parallel computers, which used to be the luxury of the government and billion-dollar corporations, are already in the laptops and desktops of millions of ordinary users. Computer architects are building existing computer chips with multiple processing cores inside them, as opposed to with sol...

Strand substitution was evaluated for the core of OSB with chips produced by grinding of recycled particleboards and wood waste. All the boards manufactured under laboratory conditions having a share of small chips in the core had high mechanical parameters, thus meeting the requirements of the standard for OSB/3. No significant effect was found of the applied modification of the core on bendin...

Recent advances in the silicon technology is enabling the VLSI chips to accommodate billions of transistors; leading toward incorporating hundreds of heterogeneous components on a single chip. However, it has been observed that the scalability of chips is posing grave problems for the current interconnect architecture which is unable to cope with the growing number of components on a chip. To r...

DNA chips are sil iconor glass-based small surfaces on which many DNA oligonucleotides are integrated. There are two photolithography methods for making DNA chips. The lightdirected oligonucleotide synthesis method is based on the combinatorial strategy. It is suitable for making a high-density 2-D array of DNA oligonucleotides. On the other hand, the lightdirected oligonucleotide immobilizatio...

The “time projection chamber” (TPC) [1] as one of the main components of the ALICE detector has a cylindrical shape with a diameter of 5 m and a length of 5 m. It is composed of several individual TPC sectors. Altogether 570 000 read-out channels have to be equipped with electronics which requires 4500 “front-end cards” (FEC) each having 8 pre-amplification units (PASA) and 8 ALTRO chips. To im...

......After two terms and a four-year stint, this issue is my last as editor in chief of IEEE Micro, and I am happy to go out with something old and something new. The “old” is an IEEE Micro tradition—a special section highlighting updated and augmented versions of top papers from the Cool Chips conference. Fumio Arakawa and Makoto Ikeda have again done a fine job of recruiting, selecting, and ...

Boiling experiments were performed with FC-72 on a series of nine in-line simulated microelectronic chips in a flow channel to ascertain the effects of channel orientation on critical heat flux (CHF). The simulated chips, measuring 10 mm x 10 mm, were flush-mounted to one wall of a 20 mm x 5 mm flow channel. The channel was rotated in increments of 45 degrees through 360 degrees such that the c...

This paper shows different approaches to use the availability of ultrathin chips for the realization of new packages with high density and improved performance. For several years technologies have been developed for the embedding of chips in circuit boards in order to achieve 3D-packages using conventional processes from PCB manufacturing. Ultrathin chips are suited to be integrated in rigid ci...