Engineering Research Centers: goals and results
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The Engineering Research Centers (ERC) program began in 1985 to improve engineering research and education in the US; it is intended to combine and focus engineering and scientific disciplines on technological systems competitiveness of US industry. The centers share a clear and coherent vision of a next-generation technological advance in an area critical to US competitiveness; a strategic research plan focused on the tools needed to realize the vision; and industry involvement in planning, research, and education programs. It takes about three years to set up a center and six or more years to reach full momentum and productivity. More than 480 firms have secured almost 700 memberships in the 18 current ERCs since 1991; 10 firms are members of more than one ERC, 30 percent are small businesses, 13 percent are foreign owned, and all provide 30 percent of the total support of the centers.
Publication Name: Proceedings of the IEEE
Subject: Electronics
ISSN: 0018-9219
Year: 1993
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Flexible A-D Conversion Using a ROM in Place of a SAR
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Succesive-approximation analog-to-digital conversion can be performed without a successive approximation register by storing all digital values in a ROM. The successive approximation is read out using the current approximation and the comparator output as an address to speed up conversion for nonlinear quantization scales. Diagrams illustrate circuit construction along with the required memory layout.
Publication Name: Proceedings of the IEEE
Subject: Electronics
ISSN: 0018-9219
Year: 1983
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