OVERVIEW: Recent progress in electronics technology has been remarkable. Progress in electronics overall has been supported by semiconductor technology with the information equipment field, as typified by multimedia, but one leading example. The semiconductor technology that makes implementation of a system on chip possible has contributed both to higher levels of system performance and also to...

The Semiconductor Electronics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted an International Conference on Narrow-Gap Semiconductors and Related Materials in Gaithersburg, MD on June 12-15, 1989. A brief background on narrow-gap semiconductors (NGSs) is given in this paper, along with an overview of the conference itself. The major section of this report is devote...

During the past few years, a lot of work has been done on behavioral models and simulation tools. But a need for modeling strategy still remains. The VHDL-AMS language supports the description of analog electronic circuits using Ordinary Differential Algebraic Equations (ODAEs), in addition to its support for describing discrete-event systems. For VHDL-AMS to be useful to the analog design ...