Previous Projects - 1996

Project: Reliability of Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Advisor: Prof. James C. Sturm

Organic LED's are a promising technology for the fabrication of large-area flat-panel displays. A key issue still to be resolved before their widespread application is their long-term reliability and lifetime. The goal of this project was to design, construct, and test the circuitry, computer interface, and computer software to test the reliability of organic LED's.

Project: Silicon Wafer Temperature Measurement for Rapid Thermal Processing by Smart Pyrometry, Advisor: Prof. James C. Sturm

Rapid Thermal Processing is an emerging technology for the fabrication of deep submicron integrated circuits because of its ability to precisely tailor thermal profiles. A critical issue for widespread utilization is a robust technique for the measurement of the wafer temperature. This project investigated the use of novel hardware and signal processing strategies to implement a "smart" Pyrometry method for measuring the wafer temperature.

Project: An Asynchronous Decompression Chip for Embedded Processors, Advisor: Prof. Andrew Wolfe

The student designed the architecture and circuits for an embedded systems code decompression system. He completed and .8u CMOS layout using dynamic logic and asynchronous circuit design.

Project: Benchmark Development for Video Signal Processors, Advisor: Prof. Andrew Wolfe

He developed portable video signal processing benchmarks and extracted test data for using the benchmarks. He also adapted the data to our VLIW simulator.

Project: Preparation of Gallium Nitride Surfaces Inulta-High Vacuum, Advisor: Prof. Antoine Kahn

She used techniques such as sputtering, Auger elkectron spectroscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction to characterize the chemical composition and atomic structure of these surfaces.

Project: FM Subcarrier Multiplexing, Advisor: Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi

This was a senior independent project which the student continued over the summer. It involved FM subcarrier multiplexing so as to be able to send digital data using the unused band of an FM broadcast channel. The student developed a simulation model using SPW (a communications software environment), and analyzed the effect of multipath fading on eye patterns and bit error rates.

Project: Program Write Behavior and its Relationship to Compiler Optimization, Advisor: Prof. Margaret Martonosi

The student did and application oriented study of the interactions of write buffers and compilers in uniprocessor code.

Project: Graphical user Interface Design for the Flashpoint performance monitoring tool, Advisor: Prof. Margaret Martonosi

The student worked on detailed memory performance tuning tools for shared memory parallel programs.

Project: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of GaAs/A1GaAs Heterostructutes, Advisor: Prof. Mansour Shayegan

Project: Transport in Nanometer Scale GaAs/A1GaAs Heterostructures, Advisor: Prof. Mansour Shayegan