Keyword : reliability


Effects of Fluorine Implantation on 1/f Noise, Hot Carrier and NBTI Reliability of MOSFETs
Jae-Hyung JANG  Hyuk-Min KWON  Ho-Young KWAK  Sung-Kyu KWON  Seon-Man HWANG  Jong-Kwan SHIN  Seung-Yong SUNG  Yi-Sun CHUNG  Da-Soon LEE  Hi-Deok LEE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2013/05/01
Vol. E96-C  No. 5  pp. 624-629
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Fundamentals and Applications of Advanced Semiconductor Devices)
Category: 
Keyword: 
fluorineflicker noise1/f noisereliabilityhot-carrierNBTIMOSFET
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Self Synchronous Circuits for Robust Operation in Low Voltage and Soft Error Prone Environments
Benjamin DEVLIN  Makoto IKEDA  Kunihiro ASADA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2013/04/01
Vol. E96-C  No. 4  pp. 518-527
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design—Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology)
Category: 
Keyword: 
self synchronousgate-levelrobustnesssingle event upsetlow voltagereliability
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A Cost-Effective Selective TMR for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures Based on DFG-Level Vulnerability Analysis
Takashi IMAGAWA  Hiroshi TSUTSUI  Hiroyuki OCHI  Takashi SATO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2013/04/01
Vol. E96-C  No. 4  pp. 454-462
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design—Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology)
Category: 
Keyword: 
soft errorsingle event upsettriple modular redundancyreliabilitysimulated annealing
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Solution-Processed Photosensitive Passivation Layer for an a-Si TFT for LCDs with a Low Dielectric Constant
Akihiro TANABE  Masahiro HANMURA  Takeyoshi KATOH  Hironori OOMORI  Akira HONMA  Teruhiko SUZUKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2012/11/01
Vol. E95-C  No. 11  pp. 1737-1743
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Electronic Displays)
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
passivationa-Sisolution-processedreliability
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BTRB: Beam Table-Based Reliable Broadcast for Directional Antennas
Laihyuk PARK  Jeongseok YU  Chan-Gun LEE  Sungrae CHO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2012/10/01
Vol. E95-B  No. 10  pp. 3307-3311
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
directional MACreliabilitybroadcastACK combination
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Impact of Discrete-Charge-Induced Variability on Scaled MOS Devices
Kiyoshi TAKEUCHI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2012/04/01
Vol. E95-C  No. 4  pp. 414-420
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design – Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology)
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
variabilityreliabilityrandom dopant fluctuationrandom telegraph noise
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Smart Power Supply Systems for Mission Critical Facilities
Keiichi HIROSE  Tadatoshi BABASAKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2012/03/01
Vol. E95-B  No. 3  pp. 755-772
Type of Manuscript: SURVEY PAPER
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
electirc powerpower qualityreliabilitymicro gridsmart gridDC powermission critical facilities
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Effects of Reliability Measures on Market Share
Masahiro HAYASHI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2011/10/01
Vol. E94-A  No. 10  pp. 2043-2047
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
Keyword: 
reliabilityavailabilityfailure frequencymarket share
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Shaka: User Movement Estimation Considering Reliability, Power Saving, and Latency Using Mobile Phone
Arei KOBAYASHI  Shigeki MURAMATSU  Daisuke KAMISAKA  Takafumi WATANABE  Atsunori MINAMIKAWA  Takeshi IWAMOTO  Hiroyuki YOKOYAMA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2011/06/01
Vol. E94-D  No. 6  pp. 1153-1163
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Emerging Technologies of Ubiquitous Computing Systems)
Category: 
Keyword: 
activity recognitionaccelerometermicrophoneGPSreliabilitypower savinglatency
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A Dynamic Continuous Signature Monitoring Technique for Reliable Microprocessors
Makoto SUGIHARA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2011/04/01
Vol. E94-C  No. 4  pp. 477-486
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Circuits and Design Techniques for Advanced Large Scale Integration)
Category: 
Keyword: 
soft errorNBTISEUSETcontrol signal errorcontinuous signature monitoringreliabilityvulnerabilitymicroprocessor
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Prediction of Circuit-Performance Variations from Technology Variations for Reliable 100 nm SOC Circuit Design
Norio SADACHIKA  Shu MIMURA  Akihiro YUMISAKI  Kou JOHGUCHI  Akihiro KAYA  Mitiko MIURA-MATTAUSCH  Hans Jurgen MATTAUSCH 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2011/03/01
Vol. E94-C  No. 3  pp. 361-367
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Keyword: 
circuit simulationcompact modelDFMreliability
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Reliability Evaluation Environment for Exploring Design Space of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
Takashi IMAGAWA  Masayuki HIROMOTO  Hiroyuki OCHI  Takashi SATO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Vol. E93-A  No. 12  pp. 2524-2532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: High-Level Synthesis and System-Level Design
Keyword: 
soft errorTMRreliabilitymethodology
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Dual Evanescently Coupled Waveguide Photodiodes with High Reliability for over 40-Gbps Optical Communication Systems
Kazuhiro SHIBA  Yasuyuki SUZUKI  Sawaki WATANABE  Tadayuki CHIKUMA  Takeshi TAKEUCHI  Kikuo MAKITA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Vol. E93-C  No. 12  pp. 1655-1661
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Lasers, Quantum Electronics
Keyword: 
100-Gbps40-Gbpsdifferential phase shift-keying (DPSK)reliabilitywaveguide photodiode
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On Synthesizing a Reliable Multiprocessor for Embedded Systems
Makoto SUGIHARA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Vol. E93-A  No. 12  pp. 2560-2569
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: High-Level Synthesis and System-Level Design
Keyword: 
heterogeneous multiprocessor synthesissoft errorsingle event upsetreliabilityreal-time system
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Highly Reliable and Drivability-Enhanced MOS Transistors with Rounded Nanograting Channels
Takashi ITO  Xiaoli ZHU  Shin-Ichiro KUROKI  Koji KOTANI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2010/11/01
Vol. E93-C  No. 11  pp. 1638-1644
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Keyword: 
nanogratingcurrent driveeffective mobilityreliabilityTDDBNBTI
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Highly Reliable PON Optical Splitters for Optical Access Networks in Outside Environments
Hiroshi WATANABE  Noriyuki ARAKI  Hisashi FUJIMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2010/07/01
Vol. E93-C  No. 7  pp. 1180-1190
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Photonic Technologies for Access Networks)
Category: 
Keyword: 
optical splitterreliabilityoutside environmentPONPLC
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Design and Implementation of Hybrid MAC-Based Robust Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network
Taeshik SHON  Eui-jik KIM  Jeongsik IN  Yongsuk PARK 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2010/04/01
Vol. E93-B  No. 4  pp. 1016-1019
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
IEEE 802.15.4securityenergy consumptionreliabilitywireless sensor network
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The Software Reliability Model Based on Fractals
Yong CAO  Qingxin ZHU 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/02/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 2  pp. 376-379
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Software Engineering
Keyword: 
reliabilityfractalspredictionsoftware failure
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Practical Redundant-Via Insertion Method Considering Manufacturing Variability and Reliability
Yuji TAKASHIMA  Kazuyuki OOYA  Atsushi KUROKAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/12/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 12  pp. 2962-2970
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Physical Level Desing
Keyword: 
redundant viamanufacturing variabilityreliability
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Fiber Access Networks: Reliability Analysis and Swedish Broadband Market
Lena WOSINSKA  Jiajia CHEN  Claus Popp LARSEN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2009/10/01
Vol. E92-B  No. 10  pp. 3006-3014
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Information and Communication Technologies and Services in Conjunction with Main Topics of APCC/COIN 2008)
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
optical fiber LANprotectionreliabilitycapital expenditures (CAPEX)operational expenditures (OPEX)fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)passive optical network (PON)active optical network (AON)
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Empirical-Statistics Analysis for Zero-Failure GaAs MMICs Life Testing Data
Zheng-Liang HUANG  Fa-Xin YU  Shu-Ting ZHANG  Hao LUO  Ping-Hui WANG  Yao ZHENG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/09/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 9  pp. 2376-2379
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
Keyword: 
MMICsreliabilityfailureaccelerated testingWeibull distributionlognormal distribution
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Temperature-Aware NBTI Modeling Techniques in Digital Circuits
Hong LUO  Yu WANG  Rong LUO  Huazhong YANG  Yuan XIE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2009/06/01
Vol. E92-C  No. 6  pp. 875-886
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Integrated Electronics
Keyword: 
negative bias temperature instability (NBTI)temperaturereliability
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Reliability Inherent in Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems and Task Scheduling for Ameliorating Their Reliability
Makoto SUGIHARA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 4  pp. 1121-1128
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Technologies Emerging Mainly from the 21st Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
soft errorsingle event upsetreliabilitytask schedulingheterogeneous multiprocessor systems
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CRRT: Congestion-Aware and Rate-Controlled Reliable Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
Muhammad Mahbub ALAM  Choong Seon HONG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2009/01/01
Vol. E92-B  No. 1  pp. 184-199
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
congestion controlrate controlreliabilityfairnesswireless sensor networks
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Design Methodology of a Sensor Network Architecture Supporting Urgent Information and Its Evaluation
Tetsuya KAWAI  Naoki WAKAMIYA  Masayuki MURATA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2008/10/01
Vol. E91-B  No. 10  pp. 3232-3240
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
sensor networksurgent informationlatencyreliability
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Highly Reliable Submicron InP-Based HBTs with over 300-GHz ft
Norihide KASHIO  Kenji KURISHIMA  Yoshino K. FUKAI  Shoji YAMAHATA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2008/07/01
Vol. E91-C  No. 7  pp. 1084-1090
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM 2007)
Category: GaAs- and InP-Based Devices
Keyword: 
InP HBTspassivation ledgereliability
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Reliable Cache Architectures and Task Scheduling for Multiprocessor Systems
Makoto SUGIHARA  Tohru ISHIHARA  Kazuaki MURAKAMI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2008/04/01
Vol. E91-C  No. 4  pp. 410-417
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Technologies in Digital LSIs and Memories)
Category: 
Keyword: 
single event upsetSRAMDRAMreliabilitycache architecturetask scheduling
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Proposal of an Assured Corridor Mechanism for Urgent Information Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tetsuya KAWAI  Naoki WAKAMIYA  Masayuki MURATA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2007/10/01
Vol. E90-B  No. 10  pp. 2817-2826
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
sensor networksurgent informationfastnessreliability
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Architectural-Level Soft-Error Modeling for Estimating Reliability of Computer Systems
Makoto SUGIHARA  Tohru ISHIHARA  Kazuaki MURAKAMI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2007/10/01
Vol. E90-C  No. 10  pp. 1983-1991
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Technology toward Frontiers of New Market)
Category: VLSI Design Technology
Keyword: 
soft errorreliabilityestimationcomputer systemsinstruction-set simulation
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A Test Structure to Analyze Electrical CMOSFET Reliabilities between Center and Edge along the Channel Width
Takashi OHZONE  Eiji ISHII  Takayuki MORISHITA  Kiyotaka KOMOKU  Toshihiro MATSUDA  Hideyuki IWATA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2007/02/01
Vol. E90-C  No. 2  pp. 515-522
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Keyword: 
CMOSFETreliabilityLDD-typechannel widthisolation
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Reliable Parallel File System with Parity Cache Table Support
Sheng-Kai HUNG  Yarsun HSU 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2007/01/01
Vol. E90-D  No. 1  pp. 22-29
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel/Distributed Processing and Systems)
Category: Parallel Processing System
Keyword: 
clusterreliabilityparallel virtual file systemredundant array of independent disksparity cache table
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Fast Algorithm for Generating Candidate Codewords in Reliability-Based Maximum Likelihood Decoding
Hideki YAGI  Toshiyasu MATSUSHIMA  Shigeichi HIRASAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 10  pp. 2676-2683
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
maximum likelihood decodingbinary block codespriority-first searchmost reliable basisreliability
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A Rate Adaptive Multicast Protocol for Providing MAC Layer Reliability in WLANs
Anas BASALAMAH  Hiroki SUGIMOTO  Takuro SATO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Vol. E89-B  No. 10  pp. 2733-2740
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Mobile Multimedia Communications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
WLANreliabilityrate adaptationmulticast
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Analytical Model on Hybrid State Saving with a Limited Number of Checkpoints and Bound Rollbacks
Mamoru OHARA  Ryo SUZUKI  Masayuki ARAI  Satoshi FUKUMOTO  Kazuhiko IWASAKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 9  pp. 2386-2395
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
Keyword: 
reliabilitydistributed systemshybrid state saving Time Warp simulationevaluation model
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Reliability of a 2-Dimensional Lattice System Subject to Dependent Component Failure
Tetsushi YUGE  Shigeru YANAGI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/08/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 8  pp. 2192-2197
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
Keyword: 
2-dimensional lattice systemdependent failurereliabilityspare
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Research on the Tolerance Distribution of Sealed Electromagnetic Relay with Reliability Index
Huimin LIANG  Xuerong YE  Guofu ZHAI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2006/08/01
Vol. E89-C  No. 8  pp. 1164-1172
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Development of Electromechanical Devices (Selected Papers from IS-EMD2005))
Category: Relays & Switches
Keyword: 
sealed electromagnetic relaytolerance distributiontolerance bandreliability
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Effects of Rapid Thermal Annealing on Bias-Stress-Induced Base Leakage in InGaP/GaAs Collector-Up Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors Fabricated with B Ion Implantation
Kazuhiro MOCHIZUKI  Ken-ichi TANAKA  Takashi SHIOTA  Takafumi TANIGUCHI  Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2006/07/01
Vol. E89-C  No. 7  pp. 943-948
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM2005)
Category: High-Speed HBTs and ICs
Keyword: 
heterojunction bipolar transistorreliabilityrapid thermal annealingGaAsInGaP
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A CMOS Built-In Current Sensor for IDDQ Testing
Jeong Beom KIM  Seung Ho HONG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Vol. E89-C  No. 6  pp. 868-870
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Integrated Electronics
Keyword: 
IDDQ testingcurrent testingBICSreliability
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Thermal-Aware Placement Based on FM Partition Scheme and Force-Directed Heuristic
Jing LI  Hiroshi MIYASHITA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 4  pp. 989-995
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 18th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
VLSI circuit physical designthermal placementpartitioningreliabilityforce-directed algorithm
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Carrier-Grade Ethernet Technologies for Next Generation Wide Area Ethernet
Atsushi IWATA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2006/03/01
Vol. E89-B  No. 3  pp. 651-660
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on the Next Generation Ethernet Technologies)
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
MANEthernetreliabilityQoSOAM
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A Reliable Broadcast/Multicast Scheme for Multihop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Jenhui CHEN  Shiann-Tsong SHEU 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2006/03/01
Vol. E89-B  No. 3  pp. 867-878
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
ad hocbroadcastMACmulticastprotocolreliabilitywireless LAN
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On-Chip Thermal Gradient Analysis and Temperature Flattening for SoC Design
Takashi SATO  Junji ICHIMIYA  Nobuto ONO  Koutaro HACHIYA  Masanori HASHIMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3382-3389
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Prediction and Analysis
Keyword: 
thermal simulationthermal gradienttemperature flatteningclock skewreliabilitytiming
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Low Power and Fault Tolerant Encoding Methods for On-Chip Data Transfer in Practical Applications
Satoshi KOMATSU  Masahiro FUJITA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3282-3289
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Low Power Methodology
Keyword: 
bus encodingECC/EDClow powerreliability
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Application-Level Causally Ordered Broadcast for Large-Scale Group Communication
ChaYoung KIM  JinHo AHN  ChongSun HWANG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-D  No. 12  pp. 2883-2889
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Dependable Computing
Keyword: 
group communicationcausal order deliverygossipscalabilityreliability
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A Heuristic Search Method with the Reduced List of Test Error Patterns for Maximum Likelihood Decoding
Hideki YAGI  Toshiyasu MATSUSHIMA  Shigeichi HIRASAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/10/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 10  pp. 2721-2733
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
maximum likelihood decodingbinary block codesheuristic searchmost reliable basisreliability
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A Broadcast Engagement ACK Mechanism for Reliable Broadcast Transmission in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Jenhui CHEN  Muwen HUANG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2005/09/01
Vol. E88-B  No. 9  pp. 3570-3578
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Ad Hoc Mobile Communications and Networking)
Category: 
Keyword: 
ad hocbroadcastnetworkMACreliabilitywireless
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Transient Bit Error Recovery Scheme for ROM-Based Embedded Systems
Sang-Moon RYU  Dong-Jo PARK 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2005/09/01
Vol. E88-D  No. 9  pp. 2209-2212
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Dependable Computing
Keyword: 
transient bit errormemory scrubbingreliabilityembedded system
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Load Limits of Ultra Miniature Electromechanical Signal Relays
Werner JOHLER  Alexander NEUHAUS 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Vol. E88-C  No. 8  pp. 1620-1628
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices--Selected Papers from International Session on Electro-Mechanical Devices 2004 (IS-EMD2004)--)
Category: Relays and Switches
Keyword: 
electromechanical devicestelecom- and signal relayslead free solderingreliabilitymixed assemblies
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Making Reactive Systems Highly Reliable by Hypersequential Programming
Naoshi UCHIHIRA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/04/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 4  pp. 941-947
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 17th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
reactive systemreliabilityscenariohypersequential programming
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Electrical Characterization of Aluminum-Oxynitride Stacked Gate Dielectrics Prepared by a Layer-by-Layer Process of Chemical Vapor Deposition and Rapid Thermal Nitridation
Hideki MURAKAMI  Wataru MIZUBAYASHI  Hirokazu YOKOI  Atsushi SUYAMA  Seiichi MIYAZAKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2005/04/01
Vol. E88-C  No. 4  pp. 640-645
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Fundamental and Application of Advanced Semiconductor Devices)
Category: Si Devices and Processes
Keyword: 
high-k dielectricsaluminum oxidereliabilityMISFET
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Effect of Purge Gas on the Reliability of a 266 nm Continuous-Wave Solid-State Laser
Hiroyuki WADA  Michio OKA  Koichi TATSUKI  Masaki SAITO  Shigeo KUBOTA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2004/12/01
Vol. E87-C  No. 12  pp. 2186-2188
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Lasers, Quantum Electronics
Keyword: 
UV laserreliabilitypurge gasscattering
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A Framework for Reliable Data Delivery in Delay Bounded Overlay Multicast
Ki-Il KIM  Dong-Kyun KIM  Sang-Ha KIM 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2004/11/01
Vol. E87-B  No. 11  pp. 3356-3360
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
reliabilitydelay boundoverlay multicast
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Impact of Lead Free Soldering Processes on the Reliability of Electromechanical Switching Devices
Werner JOHLER 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2004/08/01
Vol. E87-C  No. 8  pp. 1225-1234
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on IS-EMD2003--Recent Technical Trend of Electro-Mechanical Devices)
Category: New Technology and Automotive Applications
Keyword: 
electromechanical devicestelecom- and signal relayslead free solderingreliabilitymixed assemblies
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An Efficient Algorithm for Computing the Reliability of Stochastic Binary Systems
Min-Sheng LIN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2004/03/01
Vol. E87-D  No. 3  pp. 745-750
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Algorithms
Keyword: 
reliabilitystochastic binary systemunion of products problemdifference graph
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A Mobile Multicast Protocol with Error Control for IP Networks
Chunhung Richard LIN  Chang-Jai CHUNG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2004/03/01
Vol. E87-B  No. 3  pp. 695-704
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
mobile IPmobile multicastreliabilityscalability
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Reliability of Athermal Fiber Bragg Grating Component with Negative Thermal Expansion Ceramic Substrate
Satoru YOSHIHARA  Takahiro MATANO  Hiroshi OOSHIMA  Akihiko SAKAMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2003/12/01
Vol. E86-C  No. 12  pp. 2501-2503
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Optoelectronics
Keyword: 
fiber Bragg gratingreliabilitythermal expansionceramic substrateathermal
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Design and Analysis of a Highly-Available Network File Server Group
Fengjung LIU  Chu-sing YANG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2003/11/01
Vol. E86-D  No. 11  pp. 2291-2299
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on New Technologies in the Internet and their Applications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
NFSdata consistencyreliabilityserver group
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Reliability Analysis of GaN-Based LEDs for Solid State Illumination
Gaudenzio MENEGHESSO  Simone LEVADA  Roberto PIEROBON  Fabiana RAMPAZZO  Enrico ZANONI  Anna CAVALLINI  Manfredo MANFREDI  Shawn DU  Ivan ELIASHEVICH 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2003/10/01
Vol. E86-C  No. 10  pp. 2032-2038
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM2003)
Category: 
Keyword: 
high brightness GaN LEDreliabilitytraps
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Novel Built-In Current Sensor for On-Line Current Testing
Chul Ho KWAK  Jeong Beom KIM 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2003/09/01
Vol. E86-C  No. 9  pp. 1898-1902
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Integrated Electronics
Keyword: 
built-in current sensorcurrent testingVLSIreliability
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Reliability of a 2-Dimensional Consecutive k-out-of-n:F System with a Restriction in the Number of Failed Components
Tetsushi YUGE  Masaharu DEHARE  Shigeru YANAGI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2003/06/01
Vol. E86-A  No. 6  pp. 1535-1540
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
Keyword: 
reliabilityapproximation2-dimensional consecutive k-out-of-n:F:system
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Influence of Silicone Vapor on Micro-Motor Reliability
Terutaka TAMAI  Kiyoshi OGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2003/06/01
Vol. E86-C  No. 6  pp. 885-890
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices (IS-EMD 2002))
Category: Contact Phenomena
Keyword: 
silicone vapormicro-motorcontaminationreliabilitySiO2
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Reliability and Lifetime Estimation for Large-Scale Photonic Cross-Connect Switches of Photonic Networks
Kazuhiro NOGUCHI  Masafumi KOGA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2003/05/01
Vol. E86-B  No. 5  pp. 1530-1538
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
photonic networkoptical switchreliability
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Analysis of the Effect of Supplementing a Shortcut Link to Ring Networks
Takao MATSUMOTO  Hitoshi OTSUKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2003/05/01
Vol. E86-B  No. 5  pp. 1641-1652
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
ring networkshortcutcostreliabilitypath
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Reliability of Low Temperature Poly-Si GOLD (Gate-Overlapped LDD) Structure TFTs
Tetsuo KAWAKITA  Hidehiro NAKAGAWA  Yukiharu URAOKA  Takashi FUYUKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2002/11/01
Vol. E85-C  No. 11  pp. 1854-1859
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Electronic Displays)
Category: Active Matrix Displays
Keyword: 
low temperature poly-SiTFTreliabilityGOLDsystem on panel
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Reliability-Based Mirroring of Servers in Distributed Networks
Akiko NAKANIWA  Jun TAKAHASHI  Hiroyuki EBARA  Hiromi OKADA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2002/02/01
Vol. E85-B  No. 2  pp. 540-549
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network Management/Operation
Keyword: 
load balancingreliabilitymirroringdistributed database systemInternet
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Reliability of InGaP and AlGaAs HBT
Noren PAN  Roger E. WELSER  Kevin S. STEVENS  Charles R. LUTZ 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2001/10/01
Vol. E84-C  No. 10  pp. 1366-1372
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM 2000 (Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Microelectronics 2000))
Category: III-V HBTs
Keyword: 
HBTMOCVDreliabilitymicrowave devices
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Hydrogen Degradation of InP HEMTs and GaAs PHEMTs
Jesus A. del ALAMO  Roxann R. BLANCHARD  Samuel D. MERTENS 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2001/10/01
Vol. E84-C  No. 10  pp. 1289-1293
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM 2000 (Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Microelectronics 2000))
Category: Hetero-FETs & Their Integrated Circuits
Keyword: 
high-electron mobility transistorhydrogenreliabilityInPGaAs
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Estimation of Imprint Failure Lifetime in FeRAM with Pt/SrBi2Ta2O9/Pt Capacitor
Young Min KANG  Seaung Suk LEE  Beelyong YANG  Choong Heui CHUNG  Hun Woo KYE  Suk Kyoung HONG  Nam Soo KANG 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2001/06/01
Vol. E84-C  No. 6  pp. 757-762
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Nonvolatile Memories)
Category: FeRAMs
Keyword: 
ferroelectricnonvolatilememoryFeRAMimprintreliability
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An Acquisition Method Using Correlation Mapping with False Alarm Penalty in M-ary/SS Systems
Yuuki OKAZAKI  Masanori HAMAMURA  Shin'ichi TACHIKAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2001/06/01
Vol. E84-A  No. 6  pp. 1572-1580
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Spread Spectrum Technologies and Applications
Keyword: 
M-ary/SScorrelation mappingfalse alarm penaltyaverage acquisition timereliability
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Highly Reliable and High Power 980 nm Pump Laser Diode Module for Undersea Cable Systems
Masashi USAMI  Yuichi MATSUSHIMA  Hideyoshi HORIE  Hideaki KANEDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2001/05/01
Vol. E84-B  No. 5  pp. 1265-1273
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category: Optical Active Devices and Modules
Keyword: 
980-nm pump laserEDFAWDMundersea systemreliability
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Highly Reliable and High Power 980 nm Pump Laser Diode Module for Undersea Cable Systems
Masashi USAMI  Yuichi MATSUSHIMA  Hideyoshi HORIE  Hideaki KANEDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2001/05/01
Vol. E84-C  No. 5  pp. 639-647
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category: Optical Active Devices and Modules
Keyword: 
980-nm pump laserEDFAWDMundersea systemreliability
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Reliable Multicast Protocol with a Representative Acknowledgment Scheme for Wireless Systems
Yasuhiko INOUE  Masataka IIZUKA  Hitoshi TAKANASHI  Masahiro MORIKURA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2001/04/01
Vol. E84-B  No. 4  pp. 853-862
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
multicastreliabilityretransmissionstation group
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New Self-Healing Scheme that Realizes Multiple Reliability on ATM Networks
Taishi YAHARA  Ryutaro KAWAMURA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2000/12/20
Vol. E83-B  No. 12  pp. 2615-2625
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Switching
Keyword: 
restorationself-healingfailurereliabilityATM
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A Generalization of Consecutive k-out-of-n:G Systems
Min-Sheng LIN  Ming-Sang CHANG  Deng-Jyi CHEN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2000/06/20
Vol. E83-D  No. 6  pp. 1309-1313
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Fault Tolerance
Keyword: 
reliabilityconsecutive-k-out-of-n:G system, distributed computing system
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On the Concept of "Stability" in Asynchronous Distributed Decision-Making Systems
Tony S. LEE  Sumit GHOSH 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 2000/05/20
Vol. E83-B  No. 5  pp. 1023-1038
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Issue on Autonomous Decentralized Systems)
Category: Real Time Control
Keyword: 
stabilityinstabilityreliabilitycatastrophic failureperformanceasynchronous distributed algorithmscomplexitydecision-making
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Optimum Order Time for a Spare Part Inventory System Modeled by a Non-Regenerative Stochastic Petri Net
Qun JIN  Richard F. VIDALE  Yoshio SUGASAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2000/05/20
Vol. E83-A  No. 5  pp. 818-827
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Reliability Theory and Its Applications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
maintenanceMarkov processesPetri netsoptimizationreliability
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Digital Watermarking Technique for Motion Pictures Based on Quantization
Hiroshi OGAWA  Takao NAKAMURA  Atsuki TOMIOKA  Youichi TAKASHIMA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2000/01/20
Vol. E83-A  No. 1  pp. 77-89
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
Category: 
Keyword: 
motion picture watermarkingadaptive quantizationreliabilitysoft decisionMPEG
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Reliability of AlGaAs and InGaP Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
Noren PAN  Roger E. WELSER  Charles R. LUTZ  James ELLIOT  Jesse P. RODRIGUES 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1999/11/20
Vol. E82-C  No. 11  pp. 1886-1894
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on High-Frequency/High-Speed Devices for Information and Communication Systems in the 21st Century)
Category: RF Power Devices
Keyword: 
HBTInGaP/GaAs HBTsAlGaAs/GaAs HBTsMOCVDreliabilitymicrowave devices
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Highly Sensitive OBIRCH System for Fault Localization and Defect Detection
Kiyoshi NIKAWA  Shoji INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1998/07/20
Vol. E81-D  No. 7  pp. 743-748
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Test and Diagnosis of VLSI)
Category: Beam Testing/Diagnosis
Keyword: 
VLSI chipfault localizationmetal line defect detectionhigh resistivityTiSiAlreliabilityyieldfailure analysis
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Application of Circuit-Level Hot-Carrier Reliability Simulation to Memory Design
Peter M. LEE  Tsuyoshi SEO  Kiyoshi ISE  Atsushi HIRAISHI  Osamu NAGASHIMA  Shoji YOSHIDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1998/04/20
Vol. E81-C  No. 4  pp. 595-601
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Electronic Circuits
Keyword: 
hot-carrier degradationreliabilitydevice lifetimecircuit simulationSRAMDRAM
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Effect of Zr/Ti Ratio on the Reliability Characteristics Behavior of Sol-Gel Derived PZT Films on Pt/IrO2 Electrode
Katsuyoshi MATSUURA  Kazuaki TAKAI  Tetsuro TAMURA  Hiroshi ASHIDA  Seigen OTANI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1998/04/20
Vol. E81-C  No. 4  pp. 528-536
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Advanced Memory Devices Using High-Dielectric-Constant and Ferroelectric Thin Films)
Category: 
Keyword: 
PZTsol-gelIrO2Zr/Ti ratioreliability
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Reliability of Sn-Sb Solder for Mounting Si Chip and Passive Elements on Insulated Metal Substrate
Yasutoshi KURIHARA  Tsuneo ENDOH 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1998/03/20
Vol. E81-C  No. 3  pp. 439-446
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Integrated Electronics
Keyword: 
reliabilitySn-Sb solderinsulated metal substrateSi chippassive element
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Architecture of a Multigigabit ATM Core Switch for the B-ISDN
Erwin P. RATHGEB 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 1998/02/20
Vol. E81-B  No. 2  pp. 251-257
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on ATM Switching Systems for future B-ISDN)
Category: ATM switching architecture
Keyword: 
ATM switchreliabilityATM switch fabricimplementation
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Reliability Modeling of Declustered-Parity RAID Considering Uncorrectable Bit Errors
Xuefeng WU  Jie LI  Hisao KAMEDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1997/08/20
Vol. E80-A  No. 8  pp. 1508-1515
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Reliability and Fault Analysis
Keyword: 
uncorrectable bit errorsreliabilityanalytic modeldisk arraysRAID
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Three-Mode Failure Model for Reliability Analysis of Distributed Programs
Tatsuhiro TSUCHIYA  Yoshiaki KAKUDA  Tohru KIKUNO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1997/01/20
Vol. E80-D  No. 1  pp. 3-9
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Fault-Tolerant Computing)
Category: Distributed Systems
Keyword: 
distributed systemdistributed programsreliability3-mode failurefile spanning tree
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High Responsivity, Low Dark Current, and Highly Reliable Operation of InGaAlAs Waveguide Photodiodes for Optical Hybrid Integration
Hitoshi NAKAMURA  Masato SHISHIKURA  Shigehisa TANAKA  Yasunobu MATSUOKA  Tsunao ONO  Takao MIYAZAKI  Shinji TSUJI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1997/01/20
Vol. E80-C  No. 1  pp. 41-46
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Devices, Packaging Technology, and Subsystems for the Optical Access Network)
Category: 
Keyword: 
optical accessoptical platformhybrid integrationplanar lightwave circuitwaveguide photodiodephotodiodemolecular beam epitaxypassivationreliability
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A 250 mV Bit-Line Swing Scheme for 1-V Operating Gigabit Scale DRAMs
Tsuneo INABA  Daisaburo TAKASHIMA  Yukihito OOWAKI  Tohru OZAKI  Shigeyoshi WATANABE  Takashi OHSAWA  Kazunori OHUCHI  Hiroyuki TANGO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1996/12/20
Vol. E79-C  No. 12  pp. 1699-1706
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Low-Power LSI Technologies)
Category: 
Keyword: 
DRAMpower dissipationreliabilitybit-linewordlinesmall swingthreshold voltagesense amplifiermemory cell
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Striping in a Disk Array with Data/Parity Placement Scheme RM2 Tolerating Double Disk Failures*
Chan-Ik PARK 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1996/08/20
Vol. E79-D  No. 8  pp. 1072-1085
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Architectures, Algorithms and Networks for Massively Parallel Computing)
Category: Disk array
Keyword: 
data placementdisk arrayperformancereliabilitystriping
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A Novel Threshold Voltage Distribution Measuring Technique for Flash EEPROM Devices
Toshihiko HIMENO  Naohiro MATSUKAWA  Hiroaki HAZAMA  Koji SAKUI  Masamitsu OSHIKIRI  Kazunori MASUDA  Kazushige KANDA  Yasuo ITOH  Jin-ichi  MIYAMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1996/02/20
Vol. E79-C  No. 2  pp. 145-151
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Microelectronic Test Structures)
Category: Device and Circuit Characterization
Keyword: 
flash memoryVth distributionreliabilityNAND flashnonvolatile memory
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Test Structures and a Modified Transmission Line Pulse System for the Study of Electrostatic Discharge
Robert A. ASHTON 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1996/02/20
Vol. E79-C  No. 2  pp. 158-164
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Microelectronic Test Structures)
Category: Device and Circuit Characterization
Keyword: 
integrated electronicssemiconductor materials and devicesESDtest structuresreliability
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An Optimum Logical-Design Scheme for Flexible Multi-QoS ATM Networks Guaranteeing Reliability
Eiji OKI  Naoaki YAMANAKA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 1995/07/20
Vol. E78-B  No. 7  pp. 1016-1024
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Multimedia Computer Networks)
Category: 
Keyword: 
ATMQoSnetwork designreliabilitydisjoint route
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Design of Highly Reliable Optical Fiber Cable Network in Access Networks
Motoi IWASHITA  Hisao OIKAWA  Hideo IMANAKA  Ryuji TOYOSHIMA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 1995/07/20
Vol. E78-B  No. 7  pp. 1033-1042
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Communication Networks and Service
Keyword: 
communication networks and servicesnetwork designreliabilityheuristic algorithmsaccess networks
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A Recursive Matrix-Calculation Method for Disjoint Path Search with Hop Link Number Constraints
Eiji OKI  Naoaki YAMANAKA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 1995/05/20
Vol. E78-B  No. 5  pp. 769-774
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Communication Networks and Service
Keyword: 
disjoint pathreliabilitymatrix calculationnetwork design
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Water Sensing Method with OTDR and Optical Sensor for Non-pressurized Optical Fiber Cable System
Seiji TAKASHIMA  Masaaki KAWASE  Shigeru TOMITA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Publication Date: 1994/06/20
Vol. E77-B  No. 6  pp. 794-799
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Optical Communication
Keyword: 
communication cableoptical fiberwater sensingreliability
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Defect Detection of Passivation Layer by a Bias-Free Cu Decoration Method
Tetsuaki WADA  Shinji NAKANO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1994/04/20
Vol. E77-C  No. 4  pp. 585-589
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on LSI Failure Analysis)
Category: 
Keyword: 
semiconductorpassivationdefectreliabilityhumidity test
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Evaluation of Plasma Damage to Gate Oxide
Yukiharu URAOKA  Koji ERIGUCHI  Tokuhiko TAMAKI  Kazuhiko TSUJI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1994/03/20
Vol. E77-C  No. 3  pp. 453-458
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Quarter Micron Si Device and Process Technologies)
Category: Process Technology
Keyword: 
QBDgate oxideplasmareliabilitydamagephoton emissionLOCOSthinning
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Total High Performance Time and Design of Degradable Real-Time Systems
Masaharu AKATSU  Tomohiro MURATA  Kenzo KURIHARA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1994/03/20
Vol. E77-A  No. 3  pp. 510-516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on the 6th Karuizawa Workshop on Circuits and Systems)
Category: Concurrent Systems, Discrete Event Systems and Petri Nets
Keyword: 
availabilityreliabilityperformancefault-tolerancemodelingPetri nets
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Reliability of a 3-State System Subject to Flow Quantity Constraint
Tetsushi YUGE  Masafumi SASAKI  Shigeru YANAGI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1994/01/20
Vol. E77-A  No. 1  pp. 129-133
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Reliability)
Category: System Reliability
Keyword: 
open failureshort failure3-statej or more separate pathsreliability
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The Enhancement of Electromigration Lifetime under High Frequency Pulsed Conditions
Kazunori HIRAOKA  Kazumitsu YASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1994/01/20
Vol. E77-A  No. 1  pp. 195-203
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Reliability)
Category: Reliability Testing
Keyword: 
fault analysistesting and verificationreliabilityavailability and vulnerability
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Via Electromigration Characteristics in Aluminum Based Multilevel Interconnection
Takahisa YAMAHA  Masaru NAITO  Tadahiko HOTTA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1994/01/20
Vol. E77-A  No. 1  pp. 187-194
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Reliability)
Category: Failure Physics and Failure Analysis
Keyword: 
reliabilityelectromigrationmetallizationvia contactmultilevel interconnectionlaminated interconnectionsaluminum
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Reliability of Low-Noise HEMTs under Gamma-Ray Irradiation
Yasunobu SAITO  Fumio SASAKI  Hisao KAWASAKI  Hiroshi ISHIMURA  Hirokuni TOKUDA  Motoharu OHTOMO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1993/09/20
Vol. E76-C  No. 9  pp. 1379-1383
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Heterostructure Electron Devices)
Category: 
Keyword: 
reliabilityHEMTγ-raydegradation
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A New Technique for Evaluating Gate Oxide Reliability Using a Photon Emission Method
Yukiharu URAOKA  Kazuhiko TSUJI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1993/04/20
Vol. E76-C  No. 4  pp. 519-524
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Sub-Half Micron Si Device and Process Technologies)
Category: Device Technology
Keyword: 
reliabilityphoton emissionTDDBgate oxideLOCOS
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Effects of Synchrotron X-Ray Irradiation on Hot Carrier Reliability in Subquarter-Micrometer NMOSFETs
Toshiaki TSUCHIYA  Mitsuru HARADA  Kimiyoshi DEGUCHI  Tadahito MATSUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1993/04/20
Vol. E76-C  No. 4  pp. 506-510
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Sub-Half Micron Si Device and Process Technologies)
Category: Device Technology
Keyword: 
MOSFETreliabilityhot carriersynchrotron X-ray
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1/5 Power Law in PN-Junction Failure Mechanism Caused by Electrical-Over-Stress
Yutaka TAJIMA  Kunihiro ASADA  Takuo SUGANO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 1992/02/20
Vol. E75-C  No. 2  pp. 207-215
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Selected Papers from '91 VPAD)
Category: 
Keyword: 
reliabilityfailurepn-junctionsiliconelectrostatic-discharge
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