The wide bandgap of silicon carbide (SiC) has attracted a large interest over the past years in many research fields, such as power electronics, high operation temperature circuits, harsh environmental sensing, and more. To facilitate on complex integrated SiC ensure reproducibility, cut down cost, availability low-voltage technology for circuits is paramount importance. Here, we report scalabl...

According to the Moore’s Law, the number of transistors in a unit chip area double every two years. But the existing technology of integrated circuit formation is posing limitations to this law. CMOS technology shows certain limitations as the device is reduced more and more in the nanometer regime out of which power dissipation is an important issue. FinFET is evolving to be a promising techno...

The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Sinc...

This paper reviews recent developments in integrated fluidic mesosystems, based on low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology, in this laboratory and elsewhere. LTCC is shown to be an advantageous technique for integrated fluidic systems, due to its simplicity, low cost and ease of integration with other technologies and components (silicon, polymer, circuit boards. Also, the techniques...

Technology development and continuous down scaling in CMOS fabrication makes Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits (MSIC) more vulnerable to process variation. This paper presents a well defined novel design methodology for process variability aware design by incorporating the major challenge of statistical circuit performance relating the device and circuit level variation in an accurate and effici...

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has made an extraordinary effect on the development of integrated circuit technology. It has not only decreased the dimension and the price but also improved the complexness of the circuits. There are, however, prospective issues which may slow down the efficient use and development of upcoming VLSI technology. Among these is the issue of circuit testing, whi...

A voltage limiter circuit for indoor light energy harvesting applications is presented.This circuit is a part of a bigger system, whose function is to harvest indoor light energy, process it and store it, so that it can be used at a later time. This processing consists on maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and stepping-up, of the voltage from the photovoltaic (PV) harvester cell. The circuit h...

Technologies for designing and building microelectronics-based computational equipment have been steadily advancing ever since the first commercial discrete circuits (ICs) were introduced in the late 1950s (1) (monolithic integrated circuits were introduced in the 1960s). As predicted by Moore's law in the 1960s (2), integrated-circuit density has been doubling approximately every 18 months, an...

Abstract  In his paper a new current-controlled conveyor (CCCII) in CMOS technology is presented. It features, low supply voltage (±0.7), low power consumption, low circuit complexity, rail to rail operation and wide range parasitic resistance ( ). The circuit has been successfully employed in a multifunction biquad filter. Simulation results by HSPICE show high performance of the circuit and c...

Prior to the mid 1980s, the dominance of through-hole packaging of integrated circuits (ICs) provided easy access to nearly every pin of every chip on a printed circuit board. Providing accessibility and controllability for board testing was simply a matter of probing the board. With the advent of surface mount packaging, the accessibility for probing printed circuit boards began to diminish. L...