Touchscreens are becoming the preferred input device in a growing number of applications. They are interesting devices which are more and more introduced into the automotive domain. Current implementations impose problems like precise pointing or high visual attention and therefore the capabilities of projected capacitive touchscreens are investigated. Unlike traditional sensing techniques like...

This paper gives new methods for calculating the time-domain response for a nite-length distributed RC line. We begin with the solution for di usion in a semi-in nite distributed RC line [4, 12] and apply the method of images (re ections) to obtain the voltage response for a nite-length RC line. Second, we describe a general approach for calculating the time-domain response for nite RC lines wi...

The reactive response of brain tissue to implantable intracortical microelectrodes is thought to negatively affect their recordable signal quality and impedance, resulting in unreliable longitudinal performance. The relationship between the progression of the reactive tissue into a glial scar and the decline in device performance is unclear. We show that exposure to a model protein solution in ...

In this paper, a closed form delay and power model of a CMOS inverter driving a resistive-inductive-capacitive load is presented. The model is derived from Sakurai’s alpha-power law and exhibits good accuracy. The model can be used for the design and analysis of the CMOS inverters that drive a large interconnect RLC load when considering both speed and power. Closed form expressions are also pr...

A 10 Gb/s equalizer consisting of analog equalizer and two-tap halfrate decision feedback equalizer (DFE) in a 0.18μm CMOS has been designer. By employing capacitive degeneration and inductive peaking techniques, the analog equalizer achieves large boosting. The pipelined half-rate architecture is used to improve the transmitted data rate in DFE with a small increase in area. Measurement result...

As MOSFET sizes and wire widths become very small in recent years, in uence of resistive component of interconnects on the estimation of propagation delay and power dissipation can no longer be neglected. In this paper we present formulas of output waveform at driving point and short-circuit power dissipation for static CMOS logic gates driving a CRC load. By representing the short-circuit curr...

—It is noticed that the inductive and capacitive features of the memristor reflect (and are a quintessence of) such features of any resistor. The very presence in the resistive characteristic v = f(i) of the voltage and current state variables, associated, by their electrodynamics sense, with electrical and magnetic fields, forces any resister to cause to accumulate some magnetic and electrosta...

Defects in TSV will lead to variations in the propagation delay of the net connected to the faulty TSV. A non-invasive Vernier Ring based method for TSV pre-bond testing is proposed to detect resistive open and leakage faults. TSVs are used as capacitive loads of their driving gates, then time interval compared with the fault-free TSVs will be detected. The time interval can be detected with pi...

Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a promising desalination technology, which operates at low pressure, low temperature, requires little infrastructure, and has the potential to consume less energy for brackish water desalination. However, CDI devices consume significantly more energy than the theoretical thermodynamic minimum, and this is at least partly due to resistive power dissipation. We he...