Computer memory devices may employ any of various mechanisms for storing data, e.g., using memory cells each of which may be programmed to be in any of two or more states. Non-volatile memory includes memory cells each of which operates by changing the resistance across an active switching layer, e.g., an insulator, through the formation of conductive...

Diamond is a wide bandgap material with superior electric properties that has been studied in recent years for use in high power and high frequency electronics applications. Doping of the diamond material is necessary for effective control of defect formation, and is typically achieved by incorporating the dopant (e.g., phosphorous, boron) into the...

When transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, there is a need to match the frequencies and the phases of both a received signal and a locally generated signal. In terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR), the alignment of the phases gives the best results for retrieving any data that is modulated on the received signal. Better SNR yields higher...

Background Touchless interaction systems have grown in prevalence in recent years, including gesture-based interaction systems. Gesture recognition forms an integral part of human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies that deal with recognizing various movements of the human body, and interpreting them as commands to interact with a machine. Hand...

Synchronous logic remains the dominant design paradigm of digital systems such as Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The conventional design of sequential circuit networks is based on the assumption that every register receives the clock signal at the same time. However, guaranteeing the simultaneity of clock arrival times in practice...

In the domain of accelerometer sensitivity measurement, the current standard relies heavily on the utilization of expensive industrial shakers. These shaker devices generate vibrations in a sinusoidal pattern, which, while effective, pose significant limitations. The oscillating motion they produce, moving between high and low points, introduces challenges...

Traditional von-Neumann computing architectures, such as CPUs and GPUs, demonstrate limitations in memory bandwidth and energy efficiency. However, their high demand lies in their programmability and flexible functionality. Such platforms execute a wide spectrum of bit-wise logic and arithmetic operations. In this regard, recent application-specific...

Background Silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbonitride, and silicon dioxide films are used to protect the semiconducting regions of microprocessors, memory devices, and solar panels. These coatings are prepared by atomic layer deposition (ALD) or chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using aminosilanes, or by applying perhydropolysilazane solutions....

­Background Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been very successful in large-scale recognition tasks, but they exhibit large computation and memory requirements. To address the memory bottleneck of digital DNN hardware accelerators, in-memory computing (IMC) designs have been presented to perform analog DNN computations inside the memory. Recent IMC...

­Background In the era of artificial intelligence, various deep neural networks (DNNs), such as multi-layer perceptron, convolutional neural networks, and recurrent neural networks, have emerged and achieved human-level performance in many recognition tasks. These DNNs usually require billions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations, soliciting...