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Dr. Blanca Austin

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 Research in GaAs and Si CMOS devices, digital logic design and testing. 

(5-94-8/01) Development of accurate physically based analytical bulk CMOS inversion and accumulation short-channel device models for ultra-small low-power devices to be used in Giga- and Tera- scale Integration.  Generalized threshold voltage roll-off and subthreshold slope roll-up models applicable to all bulk CMOS structures were obtained. 

( 6/92-5/94) Characterized GaAs logic structures using HSPICE simulations. A new low power/reduced area GaAs dynamic logic style was developed. 

(4/89-6/92) Designed, fabricated and tested optically programmable  CMOS logic arrays for real-time microprocessor reconfigurability. This work entailed device modeling, logic design, SPICE simulations, chip layout and fabrication through a foundry and functional/parametric testing of the fabricated chips. 

(1/89-3/89) Developed a VLSI sub-system for a 1024-processor parallel machine using the Genesis Silicon compiler.

 

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