In the recent years, hardware trojans have become a serious issue in the field of integrated circuits. Our work presents a framework for hardware trojan detection in wireless cryptographic integrated circuits. It deals with the leaking of secret information through a wireless communication, using a mixed-signal integrated circuit technique. A trojan is inserted in the introduced system, which d...

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Electronics are used in modern oil and gas exploration to collect, log, and/or process data such as heading and inclination, weight on the bit, vibration, seismic/acoustic response, temperature, pressure, radiation, and resistivity of the strata. High-temperature electronics are needed that can reliably operate in deep-well conditions (up to 250°C). The U.S. Department of Energy Deep Trek progr...

The reliability of an integrated circuit (IC) is a strong function of temperature. In this study, we developed domputer-aided design tools to predict the temperature distribution of an IC die and compared it with thermal maps obtained by infrared (IR) imaging. A temperature sensor array fabricated on test chips was used to measure the actual surface temperature of an IC die., This array was use...

The integration of optical interconnections onto PCBs (printed circuit boards) is an emerging field that arouses rapidly growing interest worldwide, due to a continuously increasing demand for high data rates, along with a progressive miniaturization of devices and components. For high-speed data transfer, materials and integration concepts are required for which enable highspeed short-range co...

An alternative approach for evaluating the efficiency of integrated circuit (IC) design firms is presented in this paper. We took into account the differences between technology groups, containing one or more design firms, and input and output factors to prevent influences of scale (e.g., firm size). Specifically, we employed a directional distance function approach to data envelopment analysis...

The microbeam system at the Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF) currently has a beam spot size of 0.8 microns in diameter. While this spot size is small enough to hit a targeted spot in the nucleus of a cell with a high degree of certainty, researchers at RARAF hope to accurately target even smaller components of cells in the future. This paper discusses a technique used to measu...