On the way to plastic computation

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 6-18

  Fortuna, Luigi ^a   Frasca, Mattia ^a   Gioffre, Mariano ^b   La Rosa, Manuela ^c   Malagnino, Nunzia ^c,d   Marcellino, Alessandro ^c   Nicolosi, Donata ^a,c   Occhipinti, Luigi ^c   Porro, Fabrizio ^c   Sicurella, Giovanni ^a,c   Umana, Elena ^a   Vecchione, Raffaele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ANALOG CIRCUITS; APPLICATIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; TECHNOLOGY; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES; NEW DEVICES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PRINTED ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 51449115064     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2008.928417     Document Type: Article

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