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Reconfigurable Digital Circuits Based on Chip Expander with Integrated Temperature Regulation
Růžička Richard, doc. Ing., Ph.D., MBA (DCSY)
Crha Adam, Ing., Ph.D. (RG POLY)
Řezníček Michal, Ing., Ph.D.
Buršík Martin, Ing., Ph.D. (UMEL)
Reconfiguration, Digital Circuits, Polymorphic Electronics, Chip Expander, Thick
Film, Wirebonding
This article is dealing with a development of custom chip expander platform with
the possibility of accurate temperature control and integration of additional
silicon-based features. Such platform may serve as a useful tool which
facilitates the burdens connected with measurement and analysis tasks of
experimental semiconductor structures.
The devised solution provides the functionality of carrier substrate (Al2O3
compound) with CTE compatibility to the experimental silicon chip and is fully
customizable with respect to a particular chip. It also allows achieving an easy
fan-out of small-diameter chip terminals into a larger, more convenient area and
placement of chip specimens conveniently into space-constrained chamber of the
AFM microscopes, probe stations, etc.
Real application of the developed chip expander platform is demonstrated in
context of digital reconfigurable circuits based on polymorphic electronics. In
this case the chip expander with attached polymorphic chip REPOMO is thermally
stabilized at an ambient temperature level up to approximately 135C and its
sensitivity to this phenomenon is demonstrated.
@article{BUT119930,
author="Václav {Šimek} and Richard {Růžička} and Adam {Crha} and Michal {Řezníček} and Martin {Buršík}",
title="Reconfigurable Digital Circuits Based on Chip Expander with Integrated Temperature Regulation",
journal="Journal of Computer and Communications",
year="2015",
volume="3",
number="11",
pages="169--175",
doi="10.4236/jcc.2015.311027",
issn="2327-5227",
url="http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=61318"
}