A Low-Cost, Radiation-Hardened Method for Pipeline Protection in Microprocessors

a low-cost method for optical tomography

introduction: in this study, arrangement of a low-cost optical tomography device compared to other methods such as frequency domain diffuse tomography or time domain diffuse tomography is reported. this low-cost diffuse optical imaging technique is based on the detection of light after propagation in tissue. these detected signals are applied to predict the location of in-homogeneities inside p...

Low cost and highly reliable radiation hardened latch design in 65 nm

Low cost and highly reliable radiation hardened latch design in 65 nm CMOS technology

As a consequence of technology scaling down, gate capacitances and stored charge in sensitive nodes are decreasing rapidly, which makes CMOS circuits more vulnerable to radiation induced soft errors. In this paper, a low cost and highly reliable radiation hardened latch is proposed using 65 nm CMOS commercial technology. The proposed latch can fully tolerate the single event upset (SEU) when pa...

Fabrication of low cost in-house slab homogeneous and heterogeneous phantoms for lung radiation treatment

Background: The heterogeneous composition of the human body presents numerous tissue types and cavities with widely differing radiologic properties. The aim of the present work was to develop a low cost homogeneous and heterogeneous phantom and the absorbed dose were measured by ionization chamber for different radiotherapy treatment techniques and compared with treatment planning syst...

A global enhancement pipeline for low-cost imaging devices

1 All the authors are with the STMicroelectronics in the Advanced System Technology Division (AST Lab – Catania), 95121 Catania , ITALY E-mail: {Sebastiano.Battiato,Alfio.Castorina,Mirko.Guarnera, Paolo.Vivirito}@st.com). Abstract — The paper describes a suitable algorithms pipeline able to enhance the picture quality in terms of both measured and perceived quality. The overall pipeline is main...