In the late 90's, the National Research Council sponsored work on a scholarly history of the development of computer technology during the 80's. The results were published in 1999 in the book Funding a Revolution, which reveals how close government-universityindustry interactions jointly supported rapid progress in new areas of computing, noting in particular the key role of the Defense Advance...

Spike-timing dependent synaptic plasticity (STDP) circuitry is designed in 0.35μm CMOS VLSI. By setting different circuit parameters and generating diverse spike inputs, we got different steady weight distributions. Through analysing these simulation results, we show the effect of membrane threshold and input rate in STDP adaptation.

Low power has emerged as a principal theme in today’s electronics industry. The need for low power has caused a major paradigm shift where power dissipation has become as important a consideration as performance and area. This article reviews various strategies and methodologies for designing low power circuits and systems. It describes the many issues facing designers at architectural, logic, ...

The embedding problem for a class of graphs called rectilinear graphs is discussed. These graphs have applications in many VLSI Layout Problems. An interesting topological characterization of these graphs lead to efficient algorithms for recognizing and embedding rectilinear graphs which are embeddable on the plane.

It is widely agreed that the design methods and computer support of VLSI design are generally more mature than those of mechanical items. Why is this so, and is there any hope of the gap being significantly closed? This paper argues that there are fundamental reasons, that is, reasons based on natural phenomena, that keep mechanical design from approaching the ideal of VLSI design methods. The ...

Technology trends and especially portable applications are adding a third dimension (power) to the previously two-dimensional (speed, area) VLSI design space [30]. A large portion of power dissipation in high performance CMOS VLSI is due to the inherent difficulties in global communication at high rates and we propose several approaches to address the problem. These techniques can be generalize...

The design of various high-speed interface architectures for off-chip connections to and from analog, iterative VLSI decoders is discussed. It is shown that for applications with high transmission rates and low to medium accuracy, MOSFET-only R-2R ladders in combination with switched-current memory cells are ideally suited, due to their current mode nature as well as their power and area effici...

For VLSI application-specific a m y s and other regular VLSI circuits, two techniques are available for yield enhancement, namely defect-tolerance and layout modifications. In this paper, we compare these two yield enhancement appruaches by using adders as an ezample. Our yield projections indicate that the layout modification technique is more eficient when the defect density is low, while rec...

of the Dissertation Energy-Efficient VLSI Signal Processing for Multi-Band MIMO Systems