Hydrocarbon exploration, global navigation satellite systems, computed tomography, and aircraft avionics are just a few examples of applications that require system operation at an ambient temperature, pressure, or radiation level outside the range covered by military specifications. The electronics employed in these applications are known as "extreme environment electronics." On account of the increased cost resulting from both process modifications and the use of exotic substrate materials, only a handful of semiconductor foundries have specialized in the production of extreme environment electronics. Protection of these electronic systems in an extreme environment may be attained by encapsulating sensitive circuits in a controlled environment, which provides isolation from the hostile ambient, often at a significant cost and performance penalty. In a significant departure from this traditional approach, system designers have begun to use commercial off-the-shelf technology platforms with built in mitigation techniques for extreme environment applications. Such an approach simultaneously leverages the state of the art in technology performance with significant savings in project cost. Silicon-germanium is one such commercial technology platform that demonstrates potential for deployment into extreme environment applications as a result of its excellent performance at cryogenic temperatures, remarkable tolerance to radiation-induced degradation, and monolithic integration with silicon-based manufacturing. In this dissertation the radiation response of silicon-germanium technology is investigated, and novel transistor-level layout-based techniques are implemented to improve the radiation tolerance of HBT digital logic.

Orientador: Marconi Kolm Madrid / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T17:12:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GuardiaFilho_LuizEduardo_M.pdf: 2405031 bytes, checksum: b724836217b8586950a9ffabcd235f35 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho de mestrado teve o propósito de projetar e construir um sistema de hard-ware capaz de realizar o controle de máquinas robotizadas em tempo real. Foi dada uma abordagem usando técnicas de processamento paralelo e eletrônica reconfigurável com o uso de dispositivos lógicos programáveis. Mostrou-se em função dos resultados das implementações que o sistema proposto é eficiente para ser utilizado no controle de robôs baseado em modelos matemáticos complexos como cinemático direto/inverso, dinâmico e de visão artificial. Esse mesmo sistema prevê sua utilização para os quatro níveis hierárquicos envolvidos em plantas que se utilizam de controle automático: supervisão, tarefas, trajetória e servomecanismos. O sistema possui interfaces de comunicação USE e RS-232, conversores A/D e D/A, sistema de processamento de imagens (entradas e saídas de sinais de vídeo analógico), portas E/S, chaves e leds para propósito geral. A eficiência foi comprovada através de experimentações práticas utilizando sistemas robóticos reais como: sistema de um pêndulo acionado, robô redundante de 4GDL denominado Cobra, e solução em hardware de funções importantes no sentido da resolução dos modelos matemáticos em tempo real como funções transcendentais / Abstract: This work had as purpose the project and build of a hardware system with abilities to accomplish the real time control of robotic machines. It was given an approach using tech-niques of parallel processing and programmable electronics configuration with programmable logic devices. According to the implementation results, it was shown that this proposed sys-tem is efficient to be used for controlling robots based on complex mathematical models, like direct/inverse kinematics, dynamics and artificial vision. This system foresees its use for the four hierarchical levels involved in industrial plants that use automatic control: supervision, tasks, trajectory /path and servomechanisms. The system has USE and RS-232 communica-tion interfaces, A/D and D/A converters, image processing capabilities (with input/output for analog video signals), I/O ports, and switches and leds for general purpose. Its efficiency is demonstrated through practical experimentations using real robotic systems as: a driven pendu-lum system, a redundant 4 DOF robot called "Cobra", and a hardware solution for important functions in the sense of real time mathematical models computing, like the transcendental functions / Mestrado / Automação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

This diploma thesis deals with the use of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) for combinational circuits design. The work addresses the issue of optimizaion of selected logic circuts, arithmetic adders and multipliers, using Cartesian Genetic Programming. The implementation of the CPG is performed in the Python programming language with the aid of NumPy, Numba and Pandas libraries. The method was tested on selected examples and the results were discussed.

This thesis investigates the fabrication and integration of nanoscale field-effect transistors based on individual semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Such devices hold great potential for integrated circuits with large integration densities that can be manufactured on glass or flexible plastic substrates. A process to fabricate arrays of individually addressable carbon-nanotube transistors has been developed, and the electrical characteristics of a large number of transistors has been measured and analyzed. A low-temperature-processed gate dielectric with a thickness of about 6 nm has been developed that allows the transistors and circuits to operate with voltages of about 1.5 V. The transistors show excellent electrical properties, including a large transconductance (up to 10 µS), a large On/Off ratio (>10^4), a steep subthreshold swing (65 mV/decade), and negligible leakage currents (~10^-13 A). For the realization of unipolar logic circuits, monolithically integrated load resistors based on high-resistance metallic carbon nanotubes or vacuum-evaporated carbon films have been developed and analyzed by four-probe and transmission line measurements. A variety of combinational logic circuits, such as inverters, NAND gates and NOR gates, as well as a sequential logic circuit based on carbon-nanotube transistors and monolithically integrated resistors have been fabricated on glass substrates and their static and dynamic characteristics have been measured. Optimized inverters operate with frequencies as high as 2 MHz and switching delay time constants as short as 12 ns. / Thema dieser Arbeit ist die Herstellung und Integration von Feldeffekt-Transistoren auf der Grundlage einzelner halbleitender Kohlenstoffnanoröhren. Solche Bauelemente sind zum Beispiel für die Realisierung integrierter Schaltungen mit hoher Integrationsdichte auf Glassubstraten oder auf flexiblen Kunststofffolien von Interesse. Zunächst wurde ein Herstellungsverfahren für die Anfertigung einer großen Anzahl solcher Transistoren auf Glas- oder Kunststoffsubstraten entwickelt, und deren elektrische Eigenschaften wurden gemessen und ausgewertet. Das Gate-Dielektrikum dieser Transistoren hat eine Schichtdicke von etwa 6 nm, so das die Versorgungsspannungen bei etwa 1.5 V liegen. Die Transistoren haben sehr gute elektrische Parameter, z.B. einen großen Durchgangsleitwert (bis zu 10 µS), ein großes Modulationsverhältnis (>10^4), einen steilen Unterschwellanstieg (65 mV/Dekade) und vernachlässigbar kleine Leckströme (~10^-13 A). Für die Realisierung unipolarer Logikschaltungen wurden monolithisch integrierte Lastwiderstände auf der Grundlage metallischer Kohlenstoffnanoröhren mit großem Widerstand oder mittels Vakuumabscheidung erzeugter Kohlenstoffschichten entwickelt und u. a. mittels Vierpunkt- und Transferlängen-Messungen analysiert. Eine Reihe kombinatorischer Schaltungen, z.B. Inverter, NAND-Gatter und NOR-Gatter, sowie eine sequentielle Logikschaltung wurden auf Glassubstraten hergestellt, und deren statische und dynamische Parameter wurden gemessen. Optimierte Inverter arbeiten bei Frequenzen von bis zu 2 MHz und haben Signalverzögerungen von lediglich 12 ns.

The aim of this thesis is to design the implementation of fast Fourier transform algorithm, which can be used in FPGA or ASIC circuits. Implementation will be done in Matlab and then this form of implementation will be used as a reference model for implementation of fast Fourier transform algorithm in VHDL. To verify the correctness ofdesign verification enviroment will be created and verification process wil be done. Program that will generate source code for various parameters of the module performing a fast Fourier transform will be created in the last part of this thesis.