The ability to evaluate the testability of digital circuits before they are actually implemented is critical for designing highly reliable systems. This feature enables designers to verify the fault detection capability of online as well as offline testable digital circuits for both permanent and transient faults, during the design stage of the circuits. This paper presents a technique for tran...

Flexible electronics has huge potential to bring revolution in robotics and prosthetics as well as to bring about the next big evolution in electronics industry. In robotics and related applications it is expected to revolutionize the way with which machines interact with humans, real-world objects and the environment. For example, the conformable electronic or tactile skin on robot’s body, ena...

INTRODuCTION POWER electronics is a technology for using power devices to convert efficiently electric power into the optimum characteristics. As a key component for improving the energy efficiency and performance of various equipment, power electronics contributes to the realization of both a prosperous and comfortable way of life and a sustainable society by reducing CO2 (carbon dioxide) emis...

Stretchable electronics has attracted great interest with compelling potential applications that require reliable operation under mechanical deformation. Achieving stretchability in devices, however, requires a deeper understanding of nanoscale materials and mechanics beyond the success of flexible electronics. In this regard, tremendous research efforts have been dedicated toward developing st...

High-performance flexible electronics has attracted much attention in recent years due to potential applications in flexible displays, artificial skin, radio frequency identification, sensor tapes, etc. Various materials such as organic and inorganic semiconductor nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc. have been explored as the active semiconductor components for flexible devices. Among th...

We seek to fully characterize all noise contributions along the CCD and electronics signal path specific to the equipment to be used on board the TESS all-sky space observatory. We adjust physical variables in such a way as to minimize this noise and achieve a photometric precision limited in large part by shot noise. Ultimately, the goal is to demonstrate in the lab, by analyzing photon data g...

The Piccolo® Point-of-Care Chemistry Analyzer incorporates a process called iQC (“intelligent Quality Control”) that meets established QC standards independently of the operator’s skill level. iQC is a series of sophisticated automatic checks that verify the chemistry, optics, and electronics functions of the analyzer during each run, and ensures that operators in a wide range of environments r...