For the conventional single-ended eFuse cell, sensing failures can occur due to a variation of a post-program eFuse resistance during the data retention time and a relatively high program resistance of several kilo oh...For the conventional single-ended eFuse cell, sensing failures can occur due to a variation of a post-program eFuse resistance during the data retention time and a relatively high program resistance of several kilo ohms. A differential paired eFuse cell is designed which is about half the size smaller in sensing resistance of a programmed eFuse link than the conventional single-ended eFuse cell. Also, a sensing circuit of sense amplifier is proposed, based on D flip-flop structure to implement a simple sensing circuit. Furthermore, a sensing margin test circuit is proposed with variable pull-up loads out of consideration for resistance variation of a programmed eFuse. When an 8 bit eFuse OTP IP is designed with 0.18 ~tm standard CMOS logic of TSMC, the layout dimensions are 229.04 μm ×100.15μm. All the chips function successfully when 20 test chips are tested with a program voltage of 4.2 V.展开更多
Climate events pose major challenges to food production and the livelihoods of rural inhabitants in northern Laos, where upland rice using swidden production is an important crop. The onset of the rainy season in this...Climate events pose major challenges to food production and the livelihoods of rural inhabitants in northern Laos, where upland rice using swidden production is an important crop. The onset of the rainy season in this area is one such climate event, and it has occurred earlier and with less regularity in recent years. Not all households are able to cope with these changes. This study examines the ability of local farmers to cope with rice insufficiency. This investigation also clarifies household strategies in dealing with the climate event. We randomly interviewed 63 of 95 household heads, and performed a paired sample t test to examine the significance of differences in three household groups between the 2010 normal climate and the 2011 climate event. The groups were categorized according to rice selfsufficiency in 2011: groups I are households with rice self-sufficiency, group II are those facing a rice shortage of up to 3 months, and group III are those with insufficient rice for over 3 months. We also conducted a one-way ANOVA to examine the significance of differences in livelihood strategies among the three groups. We found that the household labor force was the most important factor in enhancing the villagers' ability to deal with the climate event and that the level of impact of that event shaped their coping strategies. Households with substantial labor force had more options for coping strategies than those with smaller ones. The villagers faced different levels of impact and adopted differentcoping strategies accordingly. Non-timber forest product collection was the principle livelihood strategy in response to non-climate factors such as education, access to health services, provision of equipment and clothing, and overcoming the impact of the climate event. Households heavily affected by the early rainy season onset tended to engage in intensive activities such as off-farm activity and outside work, rather than their major livelihood activities in the village(upland crop and livestock production).展开更多
We present a novel approach for dealing with optimal approximate merging of two adjacent Bezier eurves with G^2-continuity. Instead of moving the control points, we minimize the distance between the original curves an...We present a novel approach for dealing with optimal approximate merging of two adjacent Bezier eurves with G^2-continuity. Instead of moving the control points, we minimize the distance between the original curves and the merged curve by taking advantage of matrix representation of Bezier curve＇s discrete structure, where the approximation error is measured by L2-norm. We use geometric information about the curves to generate the merged curve, and the approximation error is smaller. We can obtain control points of the merged curve regardless of the degrees of the two original curves. We also discuss the merged curve with point constraints. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.展开更多
The study of ultracold Fermi gases has exploded a variety of experimental and theoretical research since the achievement of degenerate quantum gases in the lab,which expands the research range over atomic physics,cond...The study of ultracold Fermi gases has exploded a variety of experimental and theoretical research since the achievement of degenerate quantum gases in the lab,which expands the research range over atomic physics,condensed matter physics,astrophysics and particle physics.Using the Feshbach resonance,one can tune the attractive two-body interaction from weak to strong and thereby make a smooth crossover from the BCS superfluid of cooper pairs to the Bose Einstein condensate of bound molecules.In this crossover regime,the pairing effect plays a significant role in interpreting the interaction mechanism.Whenever the localized or delocalized pairing occurs at sufficiently low temperature,the single-particle energy will shift with respect to free atoms,due to the two-body or many-body interaction.Measuring the pairing gap can improve the understanding of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of the phase transition from the pseudogap to the superfluid,which will make an analogue to the high-temperature superconductivity in condensed matter.In this work,we will give a brief introduction to a novel radio-frequency(RF) spectroscopic measurement for pairing gap in an ultracold Fermi gas,which is currently widely used on the ultracold atomic table in the lab.In different interaction regimes of the BEC-BCS crossover,ultracold atoms are excited with a RF pulse and the characteristic behavior can be extracted from the spectrum.展开更多
Design and realization of random measurement scheme for compressed sensing （CS） are presented in this paper, and lower limits of the measurement number are achieved when the precise reconstruction is realized. Four ...Design and realization of random measurement scheme for compressed sensing （CS） are presented in this paper, and lower limits of the measurement number are achieved when the precise reconstruction is realized. Four kinds of random measurement matrices are designed according to the constraint conditions of random measurement. The performance is tested employing the algorithm of stagewise orthogonal matching pursuit （STOMP）. Results of the experiment show that lower limits of the measurement number are much better than the results described in Refs.[ 13-15]. When the ratios of measurement to sparsity are 3.8 and 4.0, the mean relative errors of the reconstructed signals are 8.57 × 10^-13 and 2.43 × 10^-14, respectively, which confh-rns that the random measurement scheme of this paper is very effective.展开更多
文摘For the conventional single-ended eFuse cell, sensing failures can occur due to a variation of a post-program eFuse resistance during the data retention time and a relatively high program resistance of several kilo ohms. A differential paired eFuse cell is designed which is about half the size smaller in sensing resistance of a programmed eFuse link than the conventional single-ended eFuse cell. Also, a sensing circuit of sense amplifier is proposed, based on D flip-flop structure to implement a simple sensing circuit. Furthermore, a sensing margin test circuit is proposed with variable pull-up loads out of consideration for resistance variation of a programmed eFuse. When an 8 bit eFuse OTP IP is designed with 0.18 ~tm standard CMOS logic of TSMC, the layout dimensions are 229.04 μm ×100.15μm. All the chips function successfully when 20 test chips are tested with a program voltage of 4.2 V.
基金funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (A)
文摘Climate events pose major challenges to food production and the livelihoods of rural inhabitants in northern Laos, where upland rice using swidden production is an important crop. The onset of the rainy season in this area is one such climate event, and it has occurred earlier and with less regularity in recent years. Not all households are able to cope with these changes. This study examines the ability of local farmers to cope with rice insufficiency. This investigation also clarifies household strategies in dealing with the climate event. We randomly interviewed 63 of 95 household heads, and performed a paired sample t test to examine the significance of differences in three household groups between the 2010 normal climate and the 2011 climate event. The groups were categorized according to rice selfsufficiency in 2011: groups I are households with rice self-sufficiency, group II are those facing a rice shortage of up to 3 months, and group III are those with insufficient rice for over 3 months. We also conducted a one-way ANOVA to examine the significance of differences in livelihood strategies among the three groups. We found that the household labor force was the most important factor in enhancing the villagers' ability to deal with the climate event and that the level of impact of that event shaped their coping strategies. Households with substantial labor force had more options for coping strategies than those with smaller ones. The villagers faced different levels of impact and adopted differentcoping strategies accordingly. Non-timber forest product collection was the principle livelihood strategy in response to non-climate factors such as education, access to health services, provision of equipment and clothing, and overcoming the impact of the climate event. Households heavily affected by the early rainy season onset tended to engage in intensive activities such as off-farm activity and outside work, rather than their major livelihood activities in the village(upland crop and livestock production).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60773179)the National Basic Research Program(973) of China (No. G2004CB318000)
文摘We present a novel approach for dealing with optimal approximate merging of two adjacent Bezier eurves with G^2-continuity. Instead of moving the control points, we minimize the distance between the original curves and the merged curve by taking advantage of matrix representation of Bezier curve＇s discrete structure, where the approximation error is measured by L2-norm. We use geometric information about the curves to generate the merged curve, and the approximation error is smaller. We can obtain control points of the merged curve regardless of the degrees of the two original curves. We also discuss the merged curve with point constraints. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11004224 and 11204355)the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB921601)the Program of "OneHundred Talented People" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘The study of ultracold Fermi gases has exploded a variety of experimental and theoretical research since the achievement of degenerate quantum gases in the lab,which expands the research range over atomic physics,condensed matter physics,astrophysics and particle physics.Using the Feshbach resonance,one can tune the attractive two-body interaction from weak to strong and thereby make a smooth crossover from the BCS superfluid of cooper pairs to the Bose Einstein condensate of bound molecules.In this crossover regime,the pairing effect plays a significant role in interpreting the interaction mechanism.Whenever the localized or delocalized pairing occurs at sufficiently low temperature,the single-particle energy will shift with respect to free atoms,due to the two-body or many-body interaction.Measuring the pairing gap can improve the understanding of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of the phase transition from the pseudogap to the superfluid,which will make an analogue to the high-temperature superconductivity in condensed matter.In this work,we will give a brief introduction to a novel radio-frequency(RF) spectroscopic measurement for pairing gap in an ultracold Fermi gas,which is currently widely used on the ultracold atomic table in the lab.In different interaction regimes of the BEC-BCS crossover,ultracold atoms are excited with a RF pulse and the characteristic behavior can be extracted from the spectrum.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61072111 and 60672156)the Project of Science and Technology Commission of Jilin Province(Nos.20100503 and 20110360)
文摘Design and realization of random measurement scheme for compressed sensing （CS） are presented in this paper, and lower limits of the measurement number are achieved when the precise reconstruction is realized. Four kinds of random measurement matrices are designed according to the constraint conditions of random measurement. The performance is tested employing the algorithm of stagewise orthogonal matching pursuit （STOMP）. Results of the experiment show that lower limits of the measurement number are much better than the results described in Refs.[ 13-15]. When the ratios of measurement to sparsity are 3.8 and 4.0, the mean relative errors of the reconstructed signals are 8.57 × 10^-13 and 2.43 × 10^-14, respectively, which confh-rns that the random measurement scheme of this paper is very effective.
