For integrated circuits such as very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits to work properly, signals traveling on them must arrive at their destination at the proper time. However, there are many sou...
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All digital devices, from computers to stopwatches, contain circuits composed of numerous electrical components.  Most circuits are designed to allow for some flexibility in signal timing because of ...
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Radiation therapists must carefully determine beam angles and radiation dose to accurately target tumors while avoiding healthy tissue.  Of special importance are nearby organs-at-risk, which often a...
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Quantum computing uses packets of information called quantum bits, or qubits, which can have a value of zero and one at the same time, allowing operations such as prime factorization to be performed m...
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To improve the speed of a computer program, computer systems run instructions from a program in parallel, but maintain the effect of running these instructions one after another. Systems with multiple...
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Virtual testing of a 3-D solid model is a time consuming part of product design before manufacturing. Engineers often use a software modeling tool called Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to speed up the ...
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