In today’s business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives. Managers across the country are striving to adopt lean manufacturing practices to improve their bottom line cellular manufacturing and it helps to build a variety of products with as little scrap as possible. Layout a fac...

Noise reduction in PCB is a major concern in the present digital electronic systems with data rate beyond 10 Gbps. The noise, due to simultaneous switching noise, radiation from signal vias crossing the planes, etc. can propagate within parallel plane cavity at its resonant frequencies, thus allowing coupling between integrated circuits (ICs) far from each other. Electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) ...

| An array cell (AC) architecture for the layout design is described, which is dedicated to lowpower design by means of the NMOS 4-phase dynamic logic. An AC is constructed of (M N)+2 transistors so as to constitute each type of NMOS 4-phase logic gates. A graph theoretic approach is exploited in the layout design to reduce the layout area. A number of experimental results demonstrate the pract...

Flexible manufacturing and customization is a considerable topic in modern manufacturing automobile industry. However, challenges still remain on the responsiveness of production system to the fluctuation of production demand. In this paper we developed a flexible machine layout that is not restricted to equal size machines. The layout optimizes the trade-offs between increased material handlin...

Automated FPGA Design, Verification and Layout Ian Carlos Kuon Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2004 The design and layout of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a timeconsuming process that is currently performed manually. This work investigates two issues faced when automating this task. First, an accurate compari...

We use chip-scale thermal nanoimprint simulations to show that the addition of non-functional ‘dummy’ features to a realistic integrated-circuit stamp design can substantially improve both residual layer thickness (RLT) uniformity and the completeness of stamp cavity filling at the end of a given nanoimprint process. We also show that although an arbitrarily small average RLT can be obtained if...

Abstraction and generalization of layout design cases generate new knowledge that is more widely applicable to useion and generalization of layout design cases generate new knowledge that is more widely applicable to use than specific design cases. The abstraction and generalization of design cases into hierarchical levels of abstractions provide the designer with the flexibility to apply any l...