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Motorola, Inc. (ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded in 1928 as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin. The company changed its name to Motorola in 1947. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions, on January 4, 2011. The reorganization was structured with Motorola Solutions legally succeeding Motorola, Inc., and Motorola Mobility being spun off. Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voic

Fabrication and design of nanoscale regular circuits

Mohamed Haykel Ben Jamaa

During many decades, Moore's law, which predicts an exponential increase in performance of semiconductor logic circuits and memories and an exponential decrease in their area, has proven its universal validity. It also helped the semiconductor industry predict and structure its future growth and organize its research focuses in a more visible and synergetic way. Simultaneously, the continuous growth of global demand with respect to semiconductor products (connectivity, security, healthcare, energy, entertainment, etc.) spanned a larger field where the impact of Moore's law could be observed. The scaling of electronic devices is facing today several physical and economic obstacles, including the difficulty of adapting lithography tools, maintaining good device performance and ensuring a reliable design with the continuously shrinking device features. Several solutions have been proposed at both manufacturing and system levels in order to address this situation. Some emerging technologies based on quasi one- and zero-dimensional structures are promising candidates to succeed complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. These technologies, for instance silicon nanowires (SiNWs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), share some aspects, including high variability and regular organization. The assessment of their benefits requires an interdisciplinary approach, so that technological challenges and opportunities can be leveraged at the design level. This dissertation is a new interdisciplinary vision in the field of emerging technologies. The work in this thesis is done at three levels. At the technology level, a novel fabrication technique for silicon nanowire crossbars is demonstrated, whereby the goal is to show the ability to use CMOS-compatible and only standard photolithography steps in order to achieve a sub-lithographic pitch. At the system level, the crossbar decoder design is optimized by developing new families of encoding schemes, which enhance the decoder fault-tolerance and save area. A testing procedure for this circuit part is also developed, aiming at the introduction of a novel concept of design for test in nanowire crossbar technologies. At the logic design level, the ambipolarity of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFETs) is leveraged by designing a novel library of CNTFET logic gates, which are used in logic synthesis, proving the higher expressive power and compactness of CNTFET technology compared with CMOS.

EPFL2009

Fabrication and design of nanoscale regular circuits

Mohamed Haykel Ben Jamaa

EPFL2009