Switching : VLSI Structures. Reprogrammable FPAA. Structures. Nanostructures
The work concerns the problem of switching processes in VLSI technology, reprogrammable analog arrays technology, and nanotechnology. Informatics is a discipline of science exploring the laws of processes of coding, processing, storing and transferring information or data. The movement and processing of Information is indissolubly connected with the switching of states of Structures carrying the data. In general, the changes of structure state can be forced through the changes of carried data parameters with unchanged structure configuration, through the switching of structure configuration or switching of the structure conformation. Switching is exhibited in different technologies by different basic elements (basic Structures or building blocks) and specified operations performed on them in order to obtain the object or product with desirable properties including also the dynamic changes of those properties. Dealing in turn with so different cases as VLSI Structures, FPAA (Field Programmable Analog Array) Structures and nanostructures, it is possible to notice, that the common feature takes a stand in solving the tasks related with them, rely on choice of certain basic elements critical for structure behavior as e.g. multicon-ductor transmission lines (MTL), configurations of FPAA substructures or whole FPAA systems, molecule conformations, and it is operated on them analyzing the internal switching processes. The design of interconnects in a high-speed integrated circuits and systems requires analysis and computer simulation based on interconnects models in the form of coupled, multiconductor transmission lines. The fundamental parameters for matrix description (or modeling, simulation and design) of MTL include the capacitance matrices. Precisely, these are the matrices per-unit of length, the capacitance coefficients matrix called Maxwell matrix of MTL and the two-terminal capacitance matrix. If the two-terminal matrix is known, the Maxwell matrix used for MTL switching characteristics estimation, can be computed from the two-terminal matrix. In the work, two methods of determination of the Maxwell matrix from measurements are presented: passive, indirect measurements and measurements with active separation. The measurements were performed basing on fabricated VLSI test structures named ST2 and AF4. The measurement results arę complemented with the accuracy analysis. Scaling of structures is conformed to fast switching, high-speed integrated YLSI/ULSI integrated circuits design. In case when the geometrical dimensions decrease, multiconductor interconnections between parts of a system become strongly coupled MTL, which in switching moments have to be recharged with smali geometry devices. In the work the method and numerical computations of scaled (in geometrical sense) MTL for its energetical characterization is presented. This can be used for proper design of MTL geometrical parameters in a YLSI/ULSI structures working with a high-speed switching. The results of measurements of the switching delay in the scaled in dimensions VLSI gates, are also included. Poor matching of the switched MTL reveals with reflections extending the time of switching and can be source of switching noises. The method of so called diagonal matching is presented in the work. The time of switching in the high-speed planar VLSI structures (driver and receiver gates connected via the long microstrip line) depends on dielectric properties of substrate under the signal and ground microstrip lines. Most important for fast switching is recharging of dielectric in the presence of the dielectric absorption phenomenon. In the work, the model of dielectric absorption and its identification algorithm based on the experimental data is presented. This model can be used for simulation of switching transients in the interconnections of different length for given technology, taking into account the dielectric absorption. Nowadays, it is apparent that many designs are evolving towards mixed-signal systems. In these kind of circuits in CMOS technology, the analog part of a system and an interface are composed frequently basing on switched capacitor (SC) technology and in the newest solution basing on field programmable analog arrays. There are two main weak points in fast switching of reconfigurable FPAA: firstly, the time of download of the configuration from supporting program or EEPROM memory with the time of transients in a FPAA chip when the download is finished and the chip undertakes its function, and secondly, for recently accessible FPAAs, there is no possibility of switching its parameters values and a part of active structure on-the-fly (during FPAA operation). In the work, the solution of fast switching of the part of working FPAA for adaptive operation is presented. The solution is based on external control of one or few CAB (Configur-able Analog Błock) in the working FPAA. The solution of the download time problem in FPAA chip operating in continuous time fashion is based on parallelization of the FPAAs and "hiding" of the download time and time of transients after download. Finally, the applications of the modified, fast switched FPAAs systems for adaptive and predictive control with possible application in the microreactors control have been presented. In the nanonetworks, an information is transferred through the state of moving molecules. In a short-distance communication (inside the closed area determined by the borders of nano-process) the state of the signaling molecules is forced through the binding via hydrogen or covalent bonds of another molecul or through the interaction of the environment's parameters.These processes in biological nanonetworks are performed in the signal transduction cascades and the same procedures are applied in the nanotechnical system of informatics. We considred these process with emphasis on the fusion of cascades. In general, these interactions lead to the switching of conformations of the molecule. In the work, we focused on biocompatible nanostructure introducing the standard, formal description of molecular structures , methodology of modeling and simulation of the conformation changes, and hierarchical description of nanonetworks useful in the switching conformation studies. The simulation methodologies based on the dynamic programming, Monte Carlo and Nascent Protein Folding algorithms are investigated. Moreover, nanotechnological, two-stage production processes based on the "gluey matrix" concept are discussed.
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