Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines hold promise of high fuel efficiency and low emission levels for future green vehicles. But in contrast to gasoline and diesel engines, HCCI engines suffer from lack of having direct means to initiate combustion. A combustion timing controller with robust tracking performance is the key requirement to leverage HCCI application in production ...

Timing-accurate storage emulation fills an important gap in the set of common performance evaluation techniques for proposed storage designs: it allows a researcher to experiment with not-yet-existing storage components in the context of real systems executing real applications. As its name suggests, a timing-accurate storage emulator appears to the system to be a real storage component with se...

Timing-accurate storage emulation fills an important gap in the set of common performance evaluation techniques for proposed storage designs: it allows a researcher to experiment with not-yet-existing storage components in the context of real systems executing real applications. As its name suggests, a timing-accurate storage emulator appears to the system to be a real storage component with se...

Most of the digital circuits are categorized into the synchronous circuit which uses a clock signal to alter its internal state such that a digital signal is latched by a flip-flop in the timing specified by a clock signal. Therefore, even if a digital signal suffers from ”hazard” in between two consecutive raising edges of a clock signal, a correct signal is successfully latched if the signal ...

In this paper, we present a technique for custom instruction (CI) extension considering process variations. The technique bridges the gap between the high level custom instruction extension and chip fabrication in nanotechnologies. In particular, instead of using the conventional static timing analysis (STA), it utilizes statistical static timing analysis (SSTA). Therefore, the approach becomes...

This paper reports on the first implementation of a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) in standard silicon on insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The SPAD is realized in a circular shape, and it is based on a P(+)/N-well junction along with a P-well guard-ring structure formed by lateral diffusion of two closely spaced N-well regions. The SPAD electric-f...

Distributed mission critical systems require support for ultra-secure communication, in which intrusions must be detected and suppressed in real time, possibly before the a ected messages reach the receiver. When the distributed application has real-time requirements, the e ects of intrusion are particularly severe. In addition to covered channels and potentially tampered data at the receiver, ...

Distributed mission critical systems require support for ultra-secure communication, in which intrusions must be detected and suppressed in real time, possibly before the aaected messages reach the receiver. When the distributed application has real-time requirements , the eeects of intrusion are particularly severe. In addition to covered channels and potentially tampered data at the receiver,...