Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices with source/drain interconnects that include a barrier layer. In an embodiment the semiconductor device comprises a source region and a drain region. In an embodiment, a semiconductor channel is between the source region and the drain region, and a gate electrode is over the semiconductor channel. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device further comprises interconnects to the source region and the drain region. In an embodiment, the interconnects comprise a barrier layer, a metal layer, and a fill metal.

Abstract: An electronic chronometry system for measuring a time T between a starting instant and a stopping instant which utilizes a ramp vernier having time expansion in order to provide fine counting between a starting instant and a beginning of a clock signal and for measuring a second time between the stopping instant and a second beginning of a clock signal. The device also utilizes a rough counting device to count the number of clock periods between the beginnings of the two clock signals. The system further utilizes a compensation circuitry for determining the nonlinearity in the ramp signal in order to determine the corrective term which must be applied. The corrective term is determined during a calibration cycle as a function of the measured parameters including the first and second time periods which are measured.

Abstract: In a digital storage system for oscilloscope trace data, in order to obtain precisely the ordinate of an oscilloscope trace at the intersection of a scanning line therewith in a television camera image of the trace, a scan/trace intersection profile signal is compared with a multiplicity of threshold values to generate a set of rectangular pulses of a duration equal to the threshold-override interval, and the pulse for the highest threshold is selected and processed to determine the true intersection ordinate by forming the half-sum of the ordinates of the leading and trailing edges of the pulse. This ordinate and the line scan number are provided as a pair of digital quantities (addresses) for storage in a digital memory.