In the context of declining Moore and Dennard Laws, efficient utilization of chip area and transistor is more than ever required. The portion of transistors devoted to compute operations can be maximized by off-loading as much as possible data-storage onto memory chips. This, however, requires wide off-chip IO bandwidth, and furthermore increases Network-on-chip (NoC) traffic. In this paper, we...

Today’s System-on-Chip typically embeds memory IP cores with very large aggregate bit count per SoC. This trend requires using dedicated resources to increase memory yield, while containing test & repair cost and minimizing time-to-volume. This paper summarizes the evolution of such yield optimization resources, compares their trade-offs, and concentrates on on-chip Infrastructure IP. To maximi...

In DSM and nanometer technology, there will present more and more new fault types, which are difficult to predict and avoid. Applying fault tolerant algorithms to achieve reliable on-chip communication is one of the most important issues of Network-on-Chip (NoC). This paper reviews the main on-chip fault tolerant communication algorithms and then proposes a new routing algorithm with end-to-end...

The trafficking patterns of the bacterial regulators of transcript elongation sigma(70), rho, NusA, and NusG on genes in vivo and the explanation for promoter-proximal peaks of RNA polymerase (RNAP) are unknown. Genome-wide, E. coli ChIP-chip revealed distinct association patterns of regulators as RNAP transcribes away from promoters (rho first, then NusA, then NusG). However, the interactions ...

Genetic studies have identified numerous sequence-specific transcription factors that control development, yet little is known about their in vivo distribution across animal genomes. We determined the genome-wide occupancy of the dorsoventral (DV) determinants Dorsal, Twist, and Snail in the Drosophila embryo using chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with microarray analysis (ChIP-chip). The ...

Chromatin-immunoprecipitation microarrays (ChIP-chip) that enable researchers to identify regions of a given genome that are bound by specific DNA-binding proteins present new challenges for statistical analysis due to the large number of probes, the high noise-to-signal ratio, and the spatial dependence between probes. We propose a method called BAC (Bayesian analysis of ChIP-chip) to detect t...

Recently Network-on-Chip (NoC) technique has been proposed as a promising solution for on-chip interconnection network. However, different interface specification of integrated components raises a considerable difficulty for adopting NoC techniques. In this paper, we present a generic architecture for network interface (NI) and associated wrappers for a networked processor array (NoC based mult...

The work presented in this paper focuses on the behavior of anisotropically conductive film (ACF) joint under the dynamic loading of flip chip on glass (COG) and flip chip on flexible (COF) substrate packages. Impact tests were performed to investigate the key factors that affect the adhesion strength. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to evaluate the fractography characteristics of t...