Enforcing copyright laws related to circuit design is usually hard, since discovery and proof of infringements are required beyond reasonable doubt. Proving that a given circuitry is trivially derived from a patented technique or method is in general a painstakingly slow task, often requiring reverse-engineering and forensic analysis of fabricated chips. These techniques are so complex that the...

simulation optimization is a scientific tool that is widely used to design and optimize comminution circuits in mineral processing plants. In this research, first of all, in order to  determine the suitable d80 for cicuit hydrocyclone underflow, the requiremed parameters of simulator (residence time distribution, breakage function, selection function and Plitt’s model calibration) were determin...

Modern integrated circuits (IC) operate in environment of various destabilizing factors which have essential influence on the operation of these circuits and often even disturb the normal operation. One of these destabilizing factors is the cosmic radiation, particularly total ionization dose effects (TID). For modern TID tolerant ICs [1-4] design is being done by circuit designers. In this pap...

Integrated circuit design advances into the nanoscale era towards more compact, higher performance and lower power devices. However, the large number of transistors per die has entailed an increase of device variability due to subwavelength lithography and layout complexity impacting manufacturability. Therefore, regular designs has emerged as an alternative cell design style towards more litho...