Semiconductor manufacturing
Semiconductor devices are part of our everyday lives and the demand for techniques and processes to promote them continues to grow. Fulton Schools researchers are driving innovation forward through advances in areas such as power electronics, wireless and mixed-signal circuit design, memory devices and architectures, solar energy and batteries, advanced packaging and new semiconductor materials. Expansive industry collaborations and unique facilities at ASU center Arizona as a hub for the American semiconductor revolution.
Open Source Integrated Circuit Design with Fabricated and packaged Silicon TinyChips plus Test/Characterization
Modern chip design is expensive and not very accessible to the general public. The goal of our capstone team is help make chip design more accessible by using and validating a cheap and/or open source workflow for chip design. Our work continues off the progress made by a previous capstone team by testing chips created…
Integrated Circuit Digital-to-Analog Converter Utilizing Open Source Design Software and TinyChip Hardware
This project explores the use of open-source tools to design, simulate, and prototype custom integrated circuits at low cost. An 8-bit SAR ADC and support circuitry were developed using Icarus Verilog, KiCad, Qspice, Arduino and Python. We aim to make chip development more accessible to students, researchers and small companies. Video Research poster View the…
Characterization and Analysis of Radiation Effects on Semiconductor Technologies
Aerospace, medical imaging and military devices are regularly exposed to damaging ionizing radiation. This can lead to higher power consumption, device degradation and even device failure. To support radiation hardened design, this project aims to demonstrate laser-assisted device alteration (LADA) as a non-destructive technique for detecting interface trapped charges induced by exposure to gamma radiation. …