facilities. This paper shows a new approach to allocate the short-term capacities of tools for tool groups. A virtual unit, tool group, is used to represent the group of tools in semiconductor foundry. Hence, a tool may belong to several tool groups because it may be handle several kinds of recipes. The coupling relation between the tools and the tool groups is a complex many-to-many relation. ...

This paper applies a two-phase methodology to cluster 366 records of the wire bond machines for a Taiwanese IC packaging foundry, where six attributes of each machine are chosen to cluster. The purpose of clustering in this paper is to help the foundry more effectively assign a family of machines to orders that appear in various forms such as emergent or quality-demanding and are highly dynamic...

Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) was used to determine the bulk metal elemental composition of 62 modern bronze sculptures cast in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As a result, a comprehensive survey of the alloy composition of the sculptures of many promine...

A study of the health of 78 workers in an iron and steel foundry in Vancouver, British Columbia, was carried out and the results compared with those found in 372 railway repair yard workers who were not significantly exposed to air contaminants at work. The foundry workers were exposed to PepSet, which consists of diphenyl methane diisocyanate (MDI) and phenol formaldehyde and their decompositi...

D. Wilk-Kołodziejczyk, S. Kluska-Nawarecka, The Foundry Research Institute, A. Opaliński, E. Nawarecki, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland The amount of information contained in the WEB grows in a galloping way, which is caused by the spread of Internet access and lowering the cost of storing and sharing data across the network. The vast amount of data, impossible to be an...

Gary Spivey Rincon Research Corporation Tucson, AZ, USA [email protected] Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya ECE Department and UMIACS University of Maryland, USA [email protected] Kazuo Nakajima ECE Dept, UMD, USA and New Architecture Open Lab NTT Communication Science Labs, Kyoto, Japan [email protected] Abstract We introduce the Logic Foundry, a system for the rapid creation and integration of F...

-In this paper a 4 bit parallel adder/subtractor circuit has been designed and analyzed. The circuit uses a controlled adder/subtractor circuit which converts the negative numbers into their 2’s complement. A comparative study of the silicon area and the power consumption has been done in the circuit using different channel lengths such as 65nm, 45nm. The circuit is designed and simulated using...

The high cost of IC design has made chip protection one of the first priorities of the semiconductor industry. Although there is a common impression that combinational circuits must be designed without any cycles, circuits with cycles can be combinational as well. Such cyclic circuits can be used to reliably lock ICs. Moreover, since memristor is compatible with CMOS structure, it is possible t...

The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry is a coordinated community-wide effort to develop ontologies that support the annotation and integration of scientific data. In work supported by the National Database of Autism Research (NDAR), we are developing an ontology of autism that extends the ontologies available in the OBO Foundry. We undertook a systematic literature review to identify dom...

My dissertation work was focused on developing a method for evaluating and standardizing ontologies, based on an integration of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and OntoClean [1]. The primary objective is to help standardize the creation of ontologies for the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry, for which BFO is the chosen upper ontology, given that there are no formal criteria that candida...