IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
Volume 5, Issue 5
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LETTER
  • Shunji Nakata
    2008 Volume 5 Issue 5 Pages 163-169
    Published: March 10, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: March 10, 2008
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    An adiabatic quasi 6T-SRAM is proposed in which a memory cell shares the writing and reading ports between a flip-flop and a bit line so that the transistor number in a memory cell is decreased to about six. The gradual charging operation in the circuit can avoid electromigration and hot carrier effects. In the writing mode, the voltage of the memory cell power line is reduced to ground gradually by using a high-resistivity nMOSFET, and the nMOSFET is turned off to set the memory cell power line in a high-impedance state. Then, adiabatic signal from the shared writing port is input to charge the memory cell power line to VDD. In the reading mode, the shared reading port, which connects the flip-flop and the bit line, is used for stable operation. The bit line can be precharged to a small value (for example, VDD/4), which enables a small current flow during the reading mode. Logic data are read by sensing the voltage decrease in the precharged bit line.
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  • Hisakazu Kikuchi, Akira Iijima, Shogo Muramatsu, Shigenobu Sasaki
    2008 Volume 5 Issue 5 Pages 170-175
    Published: March 10, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: March 10, 2008
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    The interpolation of color pixel values prior to digital halftoning is discussed and a new color interpolation scheme is presented by a directional copy of color values in the gradient field of luma. Error diffusion quantization is combined with clustered-dot ordered dithering to prevent from contouring. Experimental results demonstrate that sharp and false color-free interpolation is obtained to produce color bilevel AM halftones with weak rosettes and no contouring artifacts.
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  • Yuichiro Ikuma, Jiro Ito, Hiroyuki Tsuda
    2008 Volume 5 Issue 5 Pages 176-180
    Published: March 10, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: March 10, 2008
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    A novel waveguide loop mirror consisting of a 3-dB coupler and a loop waveguide is proposed. This is a useful component for configuring catoptric high-density integrated planar lightwave circuits (PLC). The silica loop mirrors were designed and fabricated using a locally enhanced optical confinement structure to reduce the minimum bend radius of the waveguides. A small sized-helical reflective arrayed-waveguide grating (R-AWG) is also proposed, as an application of the loop mirrors.
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