In this paper, a model for MEMS capacitive microphone is presented for integrated circuits.  The microphone has a diaphragm thickness of 1 μm, 0.5 × 0.5 mm2 dimension, and an air gap of 1.0 μm. Using the analytical and simulation results, the important features of MEMS capacitive microphone such as pull-in voltage and sensitivity are obtained 3.8v and 6.916 mV/Pa, respectively while there is no...

This is a very brief review of the recent work on the development of hybrid semiconductor/nanodevice integrated circuits. Such a circuit will combine a CMOS subsystem, and a nanowire crossbar with simple bistable two-terminal devices formed at each crosspoint, connected with an area-distributed “CMOL” interface. Simulations have shown that the hybrid circuits may serve as the basis for (i) tera...

One promising approach for scalable quantum computing is to use an alloptical architecture, in which the qubits are represented by photons and manipulated by mirrors and beam splitters. So far, researchers have demonstrated this method, called Linear Optical Quantum Computing, on a very small scale by performing operations using just a few photons. In an attempt to scale up this method to large...

One promising approach for scalable quantum computing is to use an alloptical architecture, in which the qubits are represented by photons and manipulated by mirrors and beam splitters. So far, researchers have demonstrated this method, called Linear Optical Quantum Computing, on a very small scale by performing operations using just a few photons. In an attempt to scale up this method to large...

Floorplanning plays a vital role in the physical design process of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) chips. It is an essential design step to estimate the chip area prior to the optimized placement of digital blocks and their interconnections. Since VLSI floorplanning is an NP-hard problem, many optimization techniques were adopted in the literature. In this work, a music-inspired Harmony Sear...

Continuous scaling of the transistor size and reduction of the operating voltage has led to a significant performance improvement of integrated circuits. Low power consumption and smaller area are the most important criteria for the fabrication of DSP systems. Static random access memories (SRAMs) consist of almost 90% of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits. The ever-increasing demand f...

Driven by the demand of the bioelectronics market, many biosensors need to work in parallel or in a controllable way to achieve complicated biodetections, however the limited scale, speed, cost, complex signal processing, and bulky circuit routing problems prohibit the discrete biosensor solutions (Drummond et al., 2003). Nowaday biosensor are usually integrated on the same substrate to form bi...