Advances in integrated circuit design, image and audio coding and computer architecture have made it possible to develop desktop-based multimedia telecommunications systems at modest cost. We examine how desktop multimedia telecommunications using various network technologies between workstations have been used to allow non-experts to perform tasks typical of their day-to-day work, and show tha...

This paper describes the experience in teaching integrated circuit design using an educational tool called Microwind through a Project-Based Learning approach. The evolution of the tool in the context of technology scale down is described, with focus on nanoscale technologies. An evaluation of the courses taught in two institutions (INSA France, and UniSA Australia) shows high levels of student...

In order to address the challenges of future integrated circuit design, both logic synthesis and physical design will need to be tightly integrated. This includes integrating the circuit structure information produced by logic synthesis with the placement stage of physical design. The first step is to determine the effects of partitioning decisions on placement performance. This paper describes...

An integrated circuit design facility has been established at APL to help tap the vast potential of very large scale integrated circuits for space applications. A custom N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor chip containing 7000 transistors has been successfully fabricated by a silicon foundry using the design database produced by the APL facility. This project is a tangible step toward creating ...

This paper will review the typical gate drive requirements for the latest generation of high power IGBT modules and present simplified implementations of the required circuits using newly developed hybrid integrated circuit (HIC) building blocks. A newly developed circuit that provides short circuit protection without desaturation detection will also be presented.

Amid the blizzard of design-automation technologies, the analytical MOSFET models (and their associated model parameter sets) receive scant attention from the design community. However, these models and parameter sets are fundamental to the design process, since they represent the critical "communication link" between a design group and its wafer foundry. In particular, analog integrated circui...

The evolution of integrated circuit technology is causing system designs to move towards communication-based architectures. However, metallic interconnect networks (networks-on-chip) can be very costly in terms of power and silicon area and can thus become a bottleneck in system on chip design. Integrated optical networks-on-chip could be good candidates to overcome predicted interconnect limit...

Planning, scheduling, and timetabling problems are typically solved using different techniques despite the fact that all these areas seem very similar and they are definitely connected. In this paper we propose a generic model covering scheduling and timetabling problems as well as some problems from planning under time and resource constraints. Our model is motivated by reallife problems and o...