Recent Progress in Physics-Based Modeling of Electromigration in Integrated Circuit Interconnects
The advance of semiconductor technology not only enables integrated circuits with higher density and better performance but also increases their vulnerability to various aging mechanisms which occur from front-end to back-end.
Wen-Sheng Zhao, Rui Zhang, Da-Wei Wang
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mm-Wave Silicon ICs: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
Millimeter-waves offer promising opportunities and interesting challenges to silicon integrated circuit and system designers. These challenges go beyond standard circuit design questions and span a broader range of topics including wave propagation ...
Hajimiri, Ali
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Realization of SRRC filter and multi-rate conversion based on FPGA
In order to eliminate the inter symbol interference(ISI) in the communication system and improve the band utilization, the square root-raised cosine filter is often used to realize the base-band shaping filter of the baseband signal.
Yang Yang +3 more
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Memristive Devices for Time Domain Compute-in-Memory
Analog compute schemes and compute-in-memory (CIM) have emerged in an effort to reduce the increasing power hunger of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which exceeds the constraints of edge devices.
Florian Freye +5 more
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Global design of an active integrated antenna for millimeter wave [PDF]
An active integrated antenna working in the millimeter wave has been realized in a monolithic process. The concept of active integrated antenna is first introduced, then the design of the integrated circuit based on a global approach, following ...
Drissi, M’hamed, Marzolf, Eric
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Instruction Fetch Policy for SMT Processors with Different Allocations of Floating-point and Integer Resources [PDF]
In Simultaneous Multithreading(SMT) processors,different threads have different demands for floating-point and integer resources.How to allocate shared resources among threads is the key point to improve the whole performance for SMT processors.Aiming at
JIANG Shengjian,HU Xiangdong,YANG Jianxin
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Global modeling approach to the design of an MMIC amplifier using Ohmic Electrode-Sharing Technology [PDF]
An innovative technique for high--density, high-frequency integrated circuit design is proposed.The procedure exploits the potentialities of a global modeling approach,previously applied only at device level,enabling the circuit designer to explore ...
Cidronali, A. +4 more
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An integrated microring circuit design for optoelectronic transformer applications [PDF]
The on-chip scale circuit of the optoelectronic transformer is designed and manipulated using the microring resonator system. By using the monochromatic input light source, the electro-optic signals can be generated and functioned as the step up and down
Ali, J. +9 more
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An Improved Model for the Full Well Capacity in Pinned Photodiode CMOS Image Sensors
An improved analytical model for quantifying the full well capacity in pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensors is proposed. The model captures the characteristics of the realistic technology-induced vertical doping nonuniformity in photon sensing N ...
Chen Cao +4 more
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Editorial for the Special Issue on Advanced Interconnect and Packaging
Unlike transistors, the continuous downscaling of feature size in CMOS technology leads to a dramatic rise in interconnect resistivity and concomitant performance degradation [...]
Wen-Sheng Zhao
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