Two years later, we are on the verge of a breakthrough into Philips Product Divisions and now the spot-light is on testing. So far, we fabricated, tested, and characterized about 10 asynchronous IC designs. Recently, we developed a test method which is competitive with modern synchronous test methods in quality and test time [2, 3]. Tangram is poised for CAT success (and in need of a new catch-...

www.pharmaporta l .com ackaging is one of the largest industry sectors in the world, worth $280 billion. Consumer healthcare packaging represents 4% ($11.2 billion) of the packaging industry. As drug manufacturers approach the 21st century, they face a number of challenges that packaging can help them meet. A decade ago packaging often was an afterthought for many pharmaceutical companies, view...

He received his PhD degree from Berkeley in 1980. His research interests include computer-aided design of integrated circuits an systems.

the imagination of designers who understand the potential of using these cells like integrated circuits on a PC board in building on-chip systems. (See the “What is a core cell?” box.) With a rich cell library of predesigned, preverified circuit blocks, cores provide an attractive means to import technology to a system integrator and differentiate products by leveraging intellectual property ad...

Today's forging die manufacturing process must be adapted to several evolutions in machining process generation: CAD/CAM models, CAM software solutions and High Speed Machining (HSM). In this context, the adequacy between die shape and HSM process is in the core of machining preparation and process planning approaches. This paper deals with an original approach of machining preparation integrat...

Complex shapes are widely used to design products in several industries such as aeronautics, automotive and domestic appliances. Several variations of their curvatures and orientations generate difficulties during their manufacturing or the machining of dies used in moulding, injection and forging. Analysis of several parts highlights two levels of difficulties between three types of shapes: pr...

SMV [McM93] is a language suitable for integrated circuit design and optimized for formal verification. VHDL [IEE93] is a design format suitable for simulation and synthesis, but poorly designed for formal verification purposes. The contribution of this paper is the integration of the two approaches through the definition of systematic rules to translate SMV programs into VHDL descriptions, pro...

During the early '70's, Carver Mead began a pioneering series of courses in integrated circuit design at Caltech, presenting the basics of industry MOS design practice at the time. Observing some of the students' successes in later doing projects using these basics, Mead sensed that it might be possible to create new, much simpler methods of IC design than those then used in industry. In the mi...