Optimizing the cost of design rule modifications for subsequent generations of semiconductor technology

Author(s):  
A. Balasinski
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Tamás Orosz ◽  
Zoltán Ádám Tamus

Since the electrical machine design is a complex task it can be divided into sub-problems, e.g. preliminary and final design processes and checking of the final design. This paper deals with the preliminary design process, which provides the key-design parameters of the electrical machine. Traditionally, these electrical machine models in preliminary design phase neglect or use oversimplified insulation system models and the tap changing selection is not involved during the calculation of key-design parameters. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of the insulation distance minimization and tap-changing on the key design parameters of a cost-optimized large power transformer. For this purpose, the paper shows some examples, where the cost optimal design — in contrast to the classical insulation design rule — contains larger insulation distances than the possible minimum values. The effect of tap-changing methods are also investigated. These cost optimization made by a verified, metaheuristic method-based transformer optimization algorithm. The results show involving the insulation design and tap-changing selection into the preliminary design process can provide more economical designs.


Author(s):  
P. Sridhar Acharya ◽  
P. S. Aithal

The energy from the sun is abundant for essential requirements of every home. But due to technological reasons, it is not so easy to use the solar energy by converting it into electrical energy efficiently in all places. The important factors which would be affecting the efficiency of the solar panels (which is presently in the range of 20% to 30%,) are the cost involved in implementing the same at each house, lack of knowledge on investment return etc. The semiconductor technology for fabricating solar cells contributes to the performance. The impurities in the semiconductor technology, the heat from the sunlight are the negative factors for the performance. The variation in the angle of sunlight incident from morning to evening is also a negative factor for the performance. The climate condition of the environment like cloudy weather which limits the sunlight falling into the panel is another limiting factor. Considering all these limiting factors this paper proposes the different modes of installation of solar energy. This paper contains the normal power requirement of the house and methods for either partial or complete solar energy installation to the individual house.


2006 ◽  
Vol 970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Moll ◽  
William B. Knowlton ◽  
Rex Oxford

ABSTRACTSemiconductor technology has reached a point in its evolution where the package now plays an important role in the overall performance of the device. In MEMs devices, the package is often more than 75% of the cost and has a significant impact in the overall size. Through wafer interconnects allow for advanced 3-D packaging schemes. Additional miniaturization, increased interconnection density, and higher performance is possible by stacking die with through wafer interconnects. Key technologies for creating TWIs are the ability to create a via through the silicon wafer, dielectric isolation of the via metal from the substrate, and filling or coating the via with a conducting material. Through wafer interconnects have been demonstrated in silicon wafers. The process to create TWIs has been optimized. The TWI has been tested electrically and proven reliable. TWIs were incorporated into an active device wafer and a two die stack connected through solder bump technology. In current work, specific applications which take advantage of the benefits of TWI's are being explored including 3-D inductors, unique sensor packages and MEMs applications.


Author(s):  
James F. Mancuso

IBM PC compatible computers are widely used in microscopy for applications ranging from control to image acquisition and analysis. The choice of IBM-PC based systems over competing computer platforms can be based on technical merit alone or on a number of factors relating to economics, availability of peripherals, management dictum, or simple personal preference.IBM-PC got a strong “head start” by first dominating clerical, document processing and financial applications. The use of these computers spilled into the laboratory where the DOS based IBM-PC replaced mini-computers. Compared to minicomputer, the PC provided a more for cost-effective platform for applications in numerical analysis, engineering and design, instrument control, image acquisition and image processing. In addition, the sitewide use of a common PC platform could reduce the cost of training and support services relative to cases where many different computer platforms were used. This could be especially true for the microscopists who must use computers in both the laboratory and the office.


Author(s):  
H. Rose

The imaging performance of the light optical lens systems has reached such a degree of perfection that nowadays numerical apertures of about 1 can be utilized. Compared to this state of development the objective lenses of electron microscopes are rather poor allowing at most usable apertures somewhat smaller than 10-2 . This severe shortcoming is due to the unavoidable axial chromatic and spherical aberration of rotationally symmetric electron lenses employed so far in all electron microscopes.The resolution of such electron microscopes can only be improved by increasing the accelerating voltage which shortens the electron wave length. Unfortunately, this procedure is rather ineffective because the achievable gain in resolution is only proportional to λ1/4 for a fixed magnetic field strength determined by the magnetic saturation of the pole pieces. Moreover, increasing the acceleration voltage results in deleterious knock-on processes and in extreme difficulties to stabilize the high voltage. Last not least the cost increase exponentially with voltage.


1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 832-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
ES Solomon ◽  
TK Hasegawa ◽  
JD Shulman ◽  
PO Walker
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1998 ◽  
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Jyrkinen‐Pakkasvirta ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 40-40
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Leslee L. Subak ◽  
Stephen K. Van Den Eeden ◽  
Jeanette S. Brown ◽  
Arona I. Ragins ◽  
Eric Vittinghoff ◽  
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