The continuous scaling needed for better performance and higher density has introduced some new challenges to the back end of line (BEOL) in terms of layout and design. Reductions in metal line width, spacing, and thickness require major changes in b...
The continuous scaling needed for higher density and better performance has introduced some new challenges to the planarity processes. This has resulted in new definitions of the layout coverage rules developed by the foundry and provided to the desi...
During the design process, architectural layout configuration is subject to complex constraints such as site conditions and design requirements, resulting in limited design efficiency. This research aims to provide architects with an effective design...
This paper studies the layout design of a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple workstations. This is a parts-to-picker storage system where robots hoist pods and bring them directly to the workstations for stationary pickers to retrieve re...
Automatic techniques for analog integrated circuit layout design have been proposed in the literature for over four decades. However, as analog design moves into deep nanometer integration nodes, the increasing number of design rules, the influence o...
Planning and designing factory layouts are frequently performed within virtual environments, relying on inputs from various cross-disciplinary activities e.g., product development, manufacturing process planning, resource descriptions, ergonomics, an...
Product layout significantly impacts consumer demand for purchases in supermarkets. Product shelf renovation is a crucial process that can increase supermarket efficiency. The development of a sequential pattern mining algorithm for investigating the...
Understanding facility layout design in chemical industries requires multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience. The recent work mainly focuses on improving safety and calculating the efficiency of the design. However, in chemical industries, facili...
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) possess a significant ability to generate novel images that adhere to specific guidelines across multiple domains. GAN-assisted generative design is a design method that can automatically generate design schemes...
DTCO (Design–Technology Co-optimization) facilitates communication between the design and process flows, thereby expediting the cycle of the chip development pipeline. Within the DTCO framework, the development of a standard cell library, which...
This paper deals with a multi-agent system which supports the designer in solving complex design tasks. The behaviour of design agents is modelled by sets of grammar rules. Each agent uses a graph grammar or a shape grammar and a database of facts co...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology has been widely used in the construction industry in recent years. However, to date, it still cannot sufficiently meet the requirements of construction practitioners in terms of the layout design of flo...
In advanced industrial automation, industrial robots have been widely utilized on assembly lines in order to reduce labor dependence. However, many related layout design approaches proposed are prone to generating unsafe layouts: there generally lack...
A receipt information extraction task requires both textual and spatial analyses. Early receipt analysis systems primarily relied on template matching to extract data from spatially structured documents. However, these methods lack generalizability a...
As the integrated circuit process nodes are continuously reduced, higher complexity and accuracy requirements are imposed on the design rule checking (DRC) of standard cell layouts. Traditional manual repair methods are inefficient and prone to error...
With the growth of residential rooftop PV adoption in recent decades, the problem of effective layout design has become increasingly important in recent years. Although a number of automated methods have been introduced, these tend to rely on simplif...
Power reduction in CMOS platforms is essential for any application technology. This is a direct result of both lateral scaling—smaller features at higher density, and vertical scaling—shallower junctions and thinner layers. For achieving this power r...
The main objective of this article was to determine the effectiveness of a web map GUI (Graphical User Interface) layout designed specifically for desktop monitors and smartphones. A suitable design of buttons for the graphical user interface is vita...
Liquid hydrogen has the potential to significantly reduce in-flight carbon emissions in the aviation industry. Among the most promising aircraft configurations for future hydrogen-powered aviation are the blended wing body and the pure flying wing co...
Although HVAC (Heating Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) layout design has transitioned from 2D drawings to 3D BIM models, the traditional manual process of sizing and placing terminal units is still a time-consuming task, which can lead to inapprop...
Traditional urban design is time-consuming and laborious. We propose a computer-generated architecture (CGA)-based workflow in this work, with the goal of allowing designers to take advantage of a high level of automation. This workflow is based on p...
Reverse engineering (RE) in Integrated Circuits (IC) is a process in which one will attempt to extract the internals of an IC, extract the circuit structure, and determine the gate-level information of an IC. In general, the RE process can be done fo...
Polygon Boolean operations are widely used in integrated circuit (IC) layout processing tasks such as design rule checking (DRC) and optical proximity correction (OPC). Single-threaded Boolean algorithms cannot meet the efficiency demand of modern IC...
With the rapid reduction of CMOS process size, the FPGAs with high-silicon accumulation technology are becoming more sensitive to aging effects. This reduces the reliability and service life of the device. The offline aging-aware layout planning base...
Existing methods for generating 2D plans based on intelligent systems usually require human-defined rules, and their operations are complex. GANs can solve these problems through independent research and learning. However, they only have generative d...
With the growing diversity and complexity of marine monitoring requirements, the scientific deployment of moored buoys has attracted increasing attention. To address the limitations of traditional methods—such as inconsistent knowledge represen...
This research aims to determine an optimized set of parameters for Altium Designer’s built-in autorouting function when applied on two- or more-layer printed circuit board (PCB) designs. An experimental approach is employed, creating a specific...
The expected outstanding performance of GaN-based transistors in power applications, characterized by high switching frequency, efficiency, and compactness, requires that the design rules of converter layout optimization, filtering, and shielding nee...
A comparison between Ma-Rokhlin-Wandzura (MRW) and double exponential (DE) quadrature rules for numerical integration of method of moments (MoM) matrix entries with singular behavior is presented for multilayer periodic structures. Non Uniform Ration...
This study treats initial building modal planning as the organizing unit for tropical neighborhood design and unifies three pedestrian-scale objectives: perimeter daylight at 1.5 m (S), grey-space wind (W), and ground-plane visibility (V)—withi...
There are usually multiple functional spaces that meet different usage needs on each building floor. The number of people in different functional spaces varies, resulting in an uneven distribution of people on each floors. When the building is subjec...
Through an exploration of meal regulations, dining rituals, and monastic rules of Han Buddhist and Cistercian monks, this article discusses how food affects space formation, layout organization, and site selection in monastic venues using Guoqing Si...
Micro Hydro Power Plants (MHPP) constitute an effective, environmentally-friendly solution to deal with energy poverty in rural isolated areas, being the most extended renewable technology in this field. Nevertheless, the context of poverty and lack...
New mission-critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles and life-support systems, set a high bar for the reliability of modern microprocessors that operate in highly challenging conditions. However, while cutting-edge integrated circuit (IC) t...
The impact of the stray inductances originated from interconnects in power electronics becomes crucial with the next generation of SiC devices. This paper shows that the existing layout of a railway inverter, operating with Si IGBTs already exhibits...
In the harsh environment of high temperature and high rotation, a single parameter is difficult to satisfy the multi-parameter test requirements of aerospace metallurgy. Therefore, a multi-parameter coplanar integrated surface acoustic wave (SAW) sen...
In this paper, we compare a new 1.2 kV rated 4H-SiC split-gate (SG) MOSFET with the conventional planar-gate (PG) MOSFETs. Both structures were fabricated with the same design rules and process platform. Therefore, the structures have similar electri...
This paper focuses on how to solve the demand of how to quickly explore more urban space design and layout in terms of the conservation and reuse of historical blocks under computer-aided design technology. Referring to urban inductive patterns, the...
Taking Harbin morning market as a case study, this study explores sustainable production schemes for generating sense of place in urban spaces amid the trend of modernization. Employing grounded theory, it develops an analytical model consisting of t...
Realistic characterization of fatigue loading resistance is a paramount for an economical and reliable structural design of reinforced concrete (RC) and prestressed concrete (PC) structures. The need for innovative experimental methods for the charac...
As the cathedral serving Zuoyun and parts of Inner Mongolia, the Batayizi Church in Datong, Shanxi is the largest surviving Italian Gothic-style Catholic church in the region. The church features a rigorous layout and refined details, making it a sig...
This article investigates the opportunities of using digital building platforms based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) to increase occupational health and safety (OHS) in building design, construction, operation and deconstruction. The data co...
Ships are among the most complex systems in the world. The always increasing interest in environmental aspects, the evolution of technologies and the introduction of new rule constraints in the maritime field have compelled the innovation of the ship...
The supporting technology of retaining small coal pillars in a double roadway layout can effectively relieve the tension of mining and excavation replacement and improve the coal recovery rate. The critical difficulty is that the supporting structure...
The basic requirements for the design of a switchgear for main 35–220 kV step-down substations are reliability and efficiency. Switchgear circuits are chosen depending on the number of supply and transit lines and transformers, the substation&r...
Opera houses are often used as concert halls with the use of a temporary acoustic shell set on stage. In most cases, the shell shape and its position in the fly tower are decided by theatre technicians, after evaluating the concert programme and cons...
In this paper, a model for the prediction of fatigue life degradation of fiber-reinforced (FRP) composite materials exposed for prolonged periods to real marine environments is proposed. The data collected during the previous phases of a more compreh...
Using the Wałbrzych agglomeration housing estates—once the most important mining and industrial region in Lower Silesia—as an example, this article illustrates the specific significance of the design of green spaces, including urban layouts, and the...
As the demand for high-density integrated circuits increases, scaling down devices has already reached its limit, making the optimization of interconnect–via layout an important research challenge. Conventional semiconductor design adopts conse...
The correct and efficient measurement of security properties is key to the deployment of effective cyberspace protection strategies. In this work, we propose GRAPH4, which is a system that combines different security metrics to design an attack detec...
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