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International Conference on Microelectronics 

About: International Conference on Microelectronics is an academic conference. The conference publishes majorly in the area(s): CMOS & Transistor. Over the lifetime, 4425 publications have been published by the conference receiving 20959 citations.


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Proceedings ArticleDOI
13 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In today's world of communications it is very necessary to implement some kind of security, whether it is implemented through hardware like FPGAs, μ-Controllers, or through software in your PCs.
Abstract: in today's world of communications if you assume that you are not being monitored then perhaps you are not aware of the threats. Since now every communication, now, takes place via electronic media it is very necessary to implement some kind of security, whether it is implemented through hardware like FPGAs, μ-Controllers, or through software in your PCs.

318 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
29 May 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, inkjet-printed InGaZnO (IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs) were reported, which exhibited high optical transparency in the visible range and had a polycrystalline phase of InGaO 3 (Zn O) 2 after thermal annealing treatment.
Abstract: We report inkjet-printed InGaZnO (IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs). IGZO ink was prepared by dissolving indium nitrate hydrate, gallium nitrate hydrate and zinc acetate dihydrate into 2-methoxyethanol with additional stabilizers. The resulting films were inkjet-printed with a resolution of 300 dots per inch using droplets with a diameter of 40 µm, and a volume of 35 pl. The films exhibited high optical transparency in the visible range and had a polycrystalline phase of InGaO 3 (ZnO) 2 after thermal annealing treatment. The chemical composition of this IGZO sample was also determined, and shown to have high stoichiometric characteristics of low oxygen deficiency. The TFTs with a conventional inverted staggered structure using inkjet-printed IGZO as an active channel layer had a field-effect mobility of ~ 0.03 cm 2 /Vs in saturation region and an on-to-off current ratio greater than ~ 10 4 .

153 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2006
TL;DR: This paper presents a survey of soft-core processors that are used in embedded systems, and several soft- core processors available from commercial vendors and open-source communities are reviewed and compared based on major architectural features.
Abstract: A soft-core processor is a hardware description language (HDL) model of a specific processor (CPU) that can be customized for a given application and synthesized for an ASIC or FPGA target. In many applications, soft-core processors provide several advantages over custom designed processors such as reduced cost, flexibility, platform independence and greater immunity to obsolescence. Embedded systems are hardware and software components working together to perform a specific function. Usually they contain embedded processors that are often in the form of soft-core processors that execute software code. This paper presents a survey of soft-core processors that are used in embedded systems. Several soft-core processors available from commercial vendors and open-source communities are reviewed and compared based on major architectural features. In addition, several real world examples of embedded systems that employ soft-core processors are summarized. As the complexity of embedded systems continues to increase, it is expected that the usage of customizable soft-core processors will become more widespread.

122 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
Kinam Kim1, Gwan-Hyeob Koh1
16 May 2004
TL;DR: The key technical limits of conventional memory scaling and the directions to overcome the problem are reviewed and the technical challenges and opportunities of emerging are reviewed.
Abstract: There have been concerns about how far we can extend the so far so successful conventional semiconductor memories Such as DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory and what will be the future directions of memory development. In this article, we will review the key technical limits of conventional memory scaling and the directions to overcome the problem. In addition, we will review the technical challenges and opportunities of emerging. new memories such as ferroelectric RAM (FRAM), magnetic RAM (MRAM) and phase change RAM (PRAM) which has been recently focused as candidates for ideal memory which can solve the problems of conventional memories.

121 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
02 Jul 2016
TL;DR: This paper presents an IoT architecture customized for precision agriculture applications that collects the needed data and relays it to a cloud-based back-end where it is processed and analyzed and sent back to the front-end nodes.
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is currently shaping different aspects of human life. Precision agriculture is one of the paradigms which can use the IoT advantages to optimize the production efficiency and uniformity across the agriculture fields, optimize the quality of the crops, and minimize the negative environmental impact. In this paper, we present an IoT architecture customized for precision agriculture applications. The proposed three-layer architecture collects the needed data and relays it to a cloud-based back-end where it is processed and analyzed. Feedback actions based on the analyzed data can be sent back to the front-end nodes. We built a prototype of the proposed architecture to demonstrate its performance advantages.

115 citations

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No. of papers from the Conference in previous years
YearPapers
202182
2020140
2019160
201886
2017166
201695