Abstract: A device and method of electronically obtaining range or distances from the device to the target utilizing a central processing unit (CPU) in combination with a pulse repetition frequency generator, a plurality of photodetectors and a transistor to transistor clock counter, in a lightweight and portable configuration. The device obtains a plurality of samples, which enables the CPU to determine filter delay, range resolution and count deviations so as to accurately determine range or distance measurement to within plus or minus one centimeter.

Abstract: A simple stacked gate Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM) device fabricated on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) substrates(films) and a method to erase data in such device as well as in any other EEPROM devices fabricated on SOI substrates(films) is described. The new EEPROM device incorporates two separate control gates, a front control gate and a back control gate. In the new erasing method the back control gate is used to operate back channel of the EEPROM device in the avalanche region and generate hot carriers subsequently injected into the floating gate. The new erasing method is applicable to either n-channel or p-channel, inversion, accumulation or depletion mode devices.