FRISC Publications and Patents

Principal Investigator: Prof. John F. McDonald

JOURNAL ARTICLES

IEE Proc.-Comput. Digit. Tech., Vol. 147, No. 3, May 2000
"SiGe HBT BiCMOS FPGAs for fast reconfigurable computing"

IEEE TVLSI, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1998
"A Very Wide Bandwidth Digital VCO Using Quadrature Frequency Multiplication and Division Implemented in AlGaAs/GaAs HBT's"

IEEE JSSC, Vol. 35, No. 6, June 2000
"A 2-GHz Clocked AlGaAs/GaAs HBT Byte-Slice Datapath Chip"

IEEE TCAD, Vol. 18, No. 2, February 1999
"Accurate High-Speed Performance Prediction for Full Differential Current-Mode Logic: The Effect of Dielectric Anisotropy"

IEEE JSSC, Vol. 26, No. 5, May 1991
"High Performance Standard Cell Library and Modeling Technique for Differential Advanced Bipolar Current Tree Logic"

IEEE TVLSI, Vol. 5, No. 2, June, 1997
"Design of a 32 b Monolithic Microprocessor Based on GaAs HMESFET Technology"

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, 11th Intl. Conf. FPL 2001, August, 2001
"Gigahertz Reconfigurable Computing using SiGe HBT BiCMOS FPGAs"

List of F-RISC Publications"

OTHER ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT OUR RESEARCH

EE Times, September 10, 2001
"SiGe process pushes reconfigurable FPGA to 5 GHz"
EE Times, September 10, 2001
"SiGe process pushes reconfigurable FPGA to 5 GHz"

An article about a chip designed by former FRISC project graduate students based on research completed at Rensselaer.
EE Times, February 18, 2002
"Multirate serdes chip set takes aim at OC-768 apps"
EE Times, February 18, 2002
"Multirate serdes chip set takes aim at OC-768 apps"

PATENTS

Patent 5,268,202 December 1993
"Vapor Doposition of Parylene-F using 1,4-BIS (Trifluoromethyl Benzene)"

Patent 6,022,595 February 2000
"Increase of Deposition Rate of Vapor Doposited Polymer by Electric Field"

Two more patents are pending in the SiGe HPT SERDES circuit design area.

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