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A variable frequency digital ring oscillator which can be formed in a small area for use in testing of chips employs a ring oscillator formed of CMOS inverters, transmission gates and capacitors and CMOS logic as a voltage controlled ring oscillator. A wide range of frequency of oscillation is achieved with small number of components. The ring oscillator circuit's oscillator frequency is controlled only by DC voltages, such as may be provided by (but not limited to) a manufacturing chip tester. The output signal of the oscillator swings between Vdd and Vss and does not need additional level translation circuits to drive CMOS logic. The ring oscillator can be composed of an odd number of CMOS inverters connected in cascade to form a loop. We provide a CMOS transmission gate with PMOS and NMOS transistor device inserted between each adjacent inverter and a MOS capacitor connected between the output of each transmission gate and the Vss supply of the ring oscillator circuit (conventionally ground). The gate voltages of the PMOS and NMOS transistors in the transmission gate are different and provide a different DC voltage between Vdd and Vss. Variation of the gate voltages of the transmission gates controls the frequency of oscillation of the circuit. The use of a plurality of cascaded delay elements between inverters achieves a wider range of oscillation frequency than possible with a single delay element.
摘要:
A thermal display comprising an array of semiconductor heater mesas having a larger cross-sectional area at the display surface than at the support surface. The preferred structure is in the shape of a truncated, inverted pyramid. The novel method includes forming the inverted heater elements by etching trenches in one surface of the semiconductor substrate and forming the heater mesas at the opposite surface, with the trenches defining the individual mesas.
摘要:
Electric Grid Analytics Learning Machine, EGALM, is a machine learning based, “brutally empirical” analysis system for use in all energy operations. EGALM is applicable to all aspects of the electricity operations from power plants to homes and businesses. EGALM is a data-centric, computational learning and predictive analysis system that uses open source algorithms and unique techniques applicable to all electricity operations in the United States and other foreign countries.
摘要:
Memory chips (15) are mounted perpendicularly on a memory module substrate (14) to achieve a close spacing between the chips. A plurality of memory chip signal lines (20) are located on the memory module substrate (14) and the memory chips (15) are electrically coupled to the memory chip signal lines at spaced apart chip coupling points (23). Digital signals are driven to the memory chip signal lines (20) through signal lines (21) having a first level impedance. The memory chip signal lines (20) have a second level impedance greater that the first level impedance. The spacing between the chip coupling points (23) is chosen such that the effective impedance level of the memory chip signal lines (20) substantially matches the lower, first level impedance.
摘要:
An improved packaging scheme for a CPU of a main frame computer improves the performance while at the same reduces the cost of manufacture of the main frame computer. A single packaging technology is used to package the whole CPU and eliminates cable connections inside the CPU. Surface power bus technology permits the fabrication of a module with chips mounted on both front and back sides of the substrate. The surface power bus is installed on one or both sides of the module surface and derives power directly from the power cable and distributes power to chip sites directly. In a specific implementation, a uni-processor CPU with chips mounted on both surfaces of the substrate and power fed from the surface power bus results in improved processor package density and system performance. The direct coupling between the high performance processor CPU and a high cost performance ratio ceramic board not only eliminates a great portion of hardware but also reduces a significant portion of the memory path and channel path delays.
摘要:
Engineering changes in the wiring between semiconductor device chips supported on the same substrate are made using minimum substrate real estate and without the use of engineering change pads or discrete wires by the use of easily modified chip interposers. The interposers are inserted between respective chips and the substrate. The interposers comprise conductive vias and multiple internal wiring planes which are selectively connected to the vias.
摘要:
The wiring nets on a module are divided into two groups of planes, i.e., an upper group in which wiring is placed along "north-south" and "east-west" directions and a lower group in which wiring is placed along diagonal directions. All vias for connecting to the wiring pass through the upper group of planes but only half of the vias pass through the lower group of planes. Thus the spacing between the vias of the lower group of planes is greater than the spacing between the upper vias, allowing more lines per wiring channel in the lower group of planes.
摘要:
A thermal display heater elements array for a comprising an array of semiconductor heater mesas having a larger cross-sectional area at the display surface than at the support surface. The preferred structure is in the shape of a truncated, inverted pyramid. The novel method includes forming the inverted heater elements by etching trenches in one surface of the semiconductor substrate and forming the heater mesas at the opposite surface, with the trenches defining the individual mesas.
摘要:
Electric Grid Analytics Learning Machine, EGALM, is a machine learning based, “brutally empirical” analysis system for use in all energy operations. EGALM is applicable to all aspects of the electricity operations from power plants to homes and businesses. EGALM is a data-centric, computational learning and predictive analysis system that uses open source algorithms and unique techniques applicable to all electricity operations in the United States and other foreign countries.
摘要:
A packaging substrate (10) is populated with memory chip cube(s) (40) and horizontally mounted interconnect chip(s) (19)mounted on the substrate which are joined during assembly using two kinds of lead tin solder alloys to form the memory chip cube. One is a high melting point lead tin alloy (HMA), another is a lower melting point lead tin alloy (LMA). The memory chip pairs (11) of the memory cube are formed by placing functional memory chips over other functional memory chips before they were diced. The chip pads of the individual memory chips and the lead tin pads of the memory chips within the wafer are aligned and the high melting point lead tin solder is reflowed, forming memory chip pairs.