VLSI ELECTRONICS: MICROSTRUCTURE SCIENCE

By KAREN MOORE

UNIVERSAL METHODOLOGY TO HANDLE DI?ERENTIAL PAIRS DURING PIN ASSIGNMENT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CHARGE PUMPS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS COMPARISON OF TWO AUTONOMOUS AC-DC CONVERTERS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY SCAVENGING SYSTEMS TRAPPING BIOLOGICAL SPECIES IN A LAB-ON-CHIP MICROSYSTEM: MICRO INDUCTOR OPTIMIZATION DESIGN AND SU8 PROCESS FINE-GRAIN RECON?GURABLE LOGIC CELLS BASED ON DOUBLE-GATE MOSFETS TIMED COLOURED PETRI NETS FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DSP APPLICATIONS: THE 3GPP LTE CASE STUDY REAL-TIME BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED IMAGE EXPOSURE CORRECTION A LIFTING-BASED DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM AND DISCRETE WAVELET PACKET PROCESSOR WITH SUPPORT FOR HIGHER ORDER WAVELET FILTERS ON THE COMPARISON OF DI?ERENT NUMBER SYSTEMS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPLEX FIR FILTERS TIME E?CIENT DUAL-FIELD UNIT FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY-RELATED PROCESSING A TEMPERATURE-AWARE PLACEMENT AND ROUTING ALGORITHM TARGETING 3D FPGAS A RECON?GURABLE NETWORK-ON-CHIP ARCHITECTURE FOR OPTIMAL MULTI-PROCESSOR SOC COMMUNICATION FAST INSTRUCTION MEMORY HIERARCHY POWER EXPLORATION FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TIMING ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION BY TIME DILATION