We propose a new DDQ testing signature, the graphical DDQ signature. We discovered that noise, in the entire set of current measurements for a chip, is a vastly superior feature for classifying chips as good or bad, compared to present methods. The measured DDQ current as a function of vectors is defined here as the signature. We examine the shape of the waveform defined by the total set of the...

Increasing concerns about the environmental impacts of herbicides, the development of herbicide-resistant weeds, and the need to carefully weigh costs and benefits have led to greater interest in developing rational, economical, and sustainable approaches to weed management (O'Donovan 1996). In addition, greater emphasis on post-emergence applied herbicides such as glyphosate has allowed for mo...

Yields of four soybean cultivars were measured for 4 years in a field infested with Heterodera glycines race 3 and in a field infested with H. glycines race 14. Cultivars included Hutcheson (susceptible to both races), Deltapine 415 (resistant to race 3 and susceptible to race 14), Asgrow 5979 (resistant to both races), and Harwig (resistant to both races as well as most other known races of H....

The measured IDDQ current as a function of vectors is defined here as the IDDQ signature of a chip. We examined the IDDQ signatures of a large number of SEMATECH chips that have been classified us good or bud by a combined decision from functional, delay and scan tests. We find that a single IDDQ threshold, whether absolute or differential, cannot separate good/bud chips with any desirable accu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the saccule exhibits temporary or permanent functional loss resembling threshold shifts in auditory brainstem response (ABR) of guinea pigs following noise exposure. DESIGN Randomly bred guinea pigs were divided into 3 groups: A (short-term noise exposure, 30 minutes, n = 15), B (long-term noise exposure, 40 hours, n = 9), and C (no noise exposure, n = 5). S...

noise-induced hearing loss, which is one of the 10 leading occupational diseases, is a debilitating and irreversible disease. during the recent 15-years period (1997-2012), several studies have investigated the association between noise, hearing damage and other side effects of noise in iran. the aim of this study was to review systematically the relevant literature related to noise-induced hea...

PURPOSE To compare the prevalence of visual field loss, the sensitivity distribution, and the size and depth of glaucomatous visual field defects using the standard full threshold (FT) and the Swedish interactive threshold algorithm (SITA) standard (SS) procedures in patients with early or suspected glaucoma. METHODS Automated perimetry findings were retrospectively evaluated in 53 patients (...

The yield of adiabatic circuits strongly depends on the effects of parameter variations on the power dissipation. The dispersion of the threshold voltage has the most important impact on the yield. Different effects on the energy consumption due to interdie and intra-die variations of the threshold voltage are presented. Three logic families, the Efficient Charge Recovery Logic (ECRL), the Posi...

Production cross sections of K and K− mesons have been measured in C+C collisions at beam energies per nucleon below and near the nucleon-nucleon threshold. At a given beam energy, the spectral slopes of the K− mesons are significantly steeper than the ones of the K mesons. The excitation functions for K and K− mesons nearly coincide when correcting for the threshold energy. In contrast, the K ...