Targeting ASICs and FPGAs
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An integrated circuit (IC) design must be implemented in silicon following design capture and synthesis. Target technologies for the process include application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) libraries, custom layout and user-programmable devices like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Custom layout is the most flexible, since performance can be improved by independently placing, routing and sizing individual transistors, but it is also the most expensive option. An ASIC library consists of predetermined sets of simple functional cells; mapping an IC design into an ASIC library simplifies design analysis and layout. FPGAs can generally be turned around more quickly, since the underlying structures' mask layers already exist.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1993
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Birch tree might combat cancer
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The University of Illinois has reported that it is on the edge of coming up with a cancer cure in the form of the bark of a birch tree. Researchers in the university claim that the peeling of this particular tree has a substance which can neutralize the effects of fatal skin cancer or melanoma. Despite this announcement, researchers in the medical field are still skeptical about the success of alleged cancer cures because of past failures in this area.
Publication Name: Safety & Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0891-1797
Year: 1995
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Van Duyn, Mona
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Mona Van Duyn ranks as one of the highly acclaimed poets in the US with a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and poet laureate honors in 1992. Van Duyn's works include "To See, To Take" and "Near Changes." Van Duyn claimed her inspiration for her poems did not come from the tragic moments of her life.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1998
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