Improving CMOS Speed and Switching Power with Air-Gap Structures

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2223, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 9–17. DOI: 10.3141/2223-02 Operating speed is most frequently represented by the 85th percentile speed (V85) of vehicles passing at a given road location, in a nonplatoon condition, and it is usually determined by spot speed...

Perhaps the two most basic phenomena discovered by the recent application of recursion theoretic methods to the developing theories of computational complexity have been Blum's speed-up phenomena, with its extension to operator speed-up by Meyer and Fischer, and the Borodin gap phenomena, with its extension to operator gaps by Constable. In this paper we present a proof of the operator gap theo...

The economic testing of high-speed digital ICs is becoming increasingly problematic. Even advanced, expensive testers are not always capable of testing these ICs because of their high-speed limitations. This paper focuses on a Design for Delay Testability technique such that high-speed ICs can be tested using inexpensive, lowspeed ATE. Also extensions for possible full BIST of delay faults are ...

Recent work on the design of monetary policy reflects a general consensus on the appropriate objectives of monetary policy. As articulated by Svensson, “....there is considerable agreement among academics and central bankers that the appropriate loss function both involves stabilizing inflation around an inflation target and stabilizing the real economy, represented by the output gap” (Lars E. ...

Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) is a critical part of cellular activities and is necessary for electrical propagation among contacting cells. Disorders of gap junctions are a major cause for cardiac arrhythmias. Dye transfer through microinjection is a conventional technique for measuring GJIC. To overcome the limitations of manual microinjection and perform high-throughput GJ...

the wild pistachio (pistacia atlantica mutika) exists in 2.4 million hectares of iranian forest. in spite of high nutritional and medical value of this fruit, its use and processing are still performed manually. the objectives of this research are to design, to construct and to evaluate the performance of a pistachio hulling machine. the pistachio of kerman province was chosen as the case of st...