M. A. Khalil

Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor for neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), yet the question of whether neurons that secrete nitric oxide (NO) synthesize BH4 remains unanswered. Cerebellar granule cell cultures (CGC) offer a model system of NO-producing neurons…

Yield and reliability are two factors affecting the profitability of semiconductor manufacturing. In the manufacturing process of modern VLSI semiconductor devices, gate-oxide defects have been found as one of the major causes for the reliability problems of CMOS integrated circ…

This thesis deals with the problem of redesigning digital VLSI circuits with incomplete implementation information. Given a digital circuit with incomplete implementation information, the developed redesign process recovers functionality of the missing parts in original design u…