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Fast-Tracking Phase Lock Loop (PLL) Architecture
When transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, there is a need to match the frequencies and the phases of both a received signal and a locally generated signal. In terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR), the alignment of the phases gives the best results for retrieving any data that is modulated on the received signal. Better SNR yields higher...
Published: 10/29/2024   |   Inventor(s): Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Matthew Kinsinger, Waleed Ahmad
Keywords(s): Biosensor, Communications Systems, Defense/military, Electronics, High Resolution, Integrated Circuits, Internet of Things, Medical Devices and Imaging, Mobile technology, Optoelectronics, Photonic, Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), Sensors, Wireless
Category(s): Physical Science, Wireless & Networking
Clock Skewing for Area and Power Optimization of ASICs Using Differential Flipflops and Local Clocking
Synchronous logic remains the dominant design paradigm of digital systems such as Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The conventional design of sequential circuit networks is based on the assumption that every register receives the clock signal at the same time. However, guaranteeing the simultaneity of clock arrival times in practice...
Published: 1/10/2024   |   Inventor(s): Sarma Vrudhula, Ankit Wagle
Keywords(s): Circuits, Computing Architecture, Electronics, Integrated Circuits, PS-Applied Technologies, PS-Semiconductor Devices
Category(s): Applied Technologies, Physical Science, Semiconductor Devices
Pulse-Clocked TMR Flip-Flop Design for Efficient Temporal Radiation Hardening of Digital Circuits
Digital circuits use sequences of logic gates called flip-flops (FFs) to store and transmit binary information. Triple mode redundant (TMR) FFs have three logic gates that produce a single output based on their majority state in case one fails due to soft error. A soft error occurs when a switch within a digital circuit flips to its opposite state,...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Lawrence Clark
Keywords(s): Integrated Circuits, Ionizing Radiation, Radiation Hardening
Category(s): Semiconductor Devices
Clock Skewing Strategy to Minimize Dynamic Power and Eliminate Hold Violations in ASIC Circuits
In digital systems, the difference in the arrival times at two registers is referred to as the clock skew between those registers. Clock skewing is a widely used optimization technique in conventional application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs and typically implemented by introducing buffers to ensure clocking of components happens in the...
Published: 1/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Sarma Vrudhula, Niranjan Kulkarni, Aykut Dengi
Keywords(s): Circuits, Integrated Circuits, Materials and Electronics
Category(s): Applied Technologies, Computing & Information Technology, Physical Science, Semiconductor Devices
Automatic Segmentation Algorithm for Reverse Engineering of Integrated Circuits
Heightens Contrast in Lower Quality Scanning Electron Microscopy Images for More Efficient Reverse Engineering or Failure Analysis This image-processing algorithm segments the structural elements of integrated circuits in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images to enable reverse engineering or failure analysis. The increasing complexity of advanced...
Published: 6/27/2021   |   Inventor(s): Domenic Forte, Navid Asadi-Zanjani, Damon Woodard, Ronald Wilson
Keywords(s): Image Processing, Integrated Circuits, Reverse Engineering, Segmentation
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Computer Science, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Electrical
Algorithm to Evaluate Vulnerability of Integrated Circuits to Microprobing Attacks
Quantifies an Integrated Circuit’s Ability to Withstand Physical Attacks that Might Compromise Sensitive InformationThis quantitative algorithm uses information about the layout of an integrated circuit to evaluate the circuit's design for vulnerabilities to microprobing attacks. Microprobing is a type of physical attack on an integrated circuit...
Published: 6/27/2021   |   Inventor(s): Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor, Navid Asadi-Zanjani, Qihang Shi
Keywords(s): CAD, Hardware Security, Integrated Circuits, Semiconductors
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Electrical
On-Chip Delay Calibration and Tracking Circuit
Enables Highly Precise Calibration of Circuit Time Delays, Using Standard Resources This digital calibration circuit and related software installs into programmable devices or can be built into general integrated circuits for self-calibration of timing delay even under harsh temperature or voltage conditions. Almost all electronics use integrated circuits;...
Published: 9/2/2021   |   Inventor(s):  
Keywords(s): Delays Calibration, Integrated Circuits, Precision Timing
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Electrical, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Instrumentation-Sensors-Photonics
Simulating Interconnects in Microchips for the Purpose of Rapid Failure Analysis
As electronics become more compact, the issue of electromigration, the accumulation of atoms at the anode of an electronic circuit due to an uneven distribution of current, becomes more prevalent. Devices that undergo electromigration experience physical changes often resulting in short or open circuit failures specifically at the soldering joints....
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Blake Rogers, Amaneh Tasooji
Keywords(s): Additive Manufacturing, Electromigration, Electronics, Integrated Circuits, Memory, Nanoparticles, Semiconductor Processing, Smartphone, Solder
Category(s): Advanced Materials/Nanotechnology, Computing & Information Technology, Physical Science, Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductors, Materials & Processes
Design Automation of Radiation Hardened Mixed Single, Dual, and Triple Mode Redundant Digital Circuits
The fundamental building blocks of all computer electronics, integrated circuits (ICs) are the least expensive way to create the digital circuits needed for processing binary information. A soft error is when a binary switch within a digital circuit flips to its opposite state and causes an electronic device to malfunction. Modular redundancy is a method...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Lawrence Clark, Dan Wheeler Patterson, Chandarasekaran Ramamurthy, Srivatsan Chellappa
Keywords(s): Circuits, Integrated Circuits, Ionizing Radiation, Radiation Hardening
Category(s): Semiconductor Devices