Electric Vehicles (EV) are growing areas of research since the demand for clean transportation is ever-increasing. Batteries form an integral part of EVs. Battery Management systems (BMS) need to support many features, including charge balancing to improve battery life and longevity. Among passive cell balancing and active cell balancing, the latter provides better battery life and efficiency. Among different active and passive cell balancing techniques, popular techniques like Flyback transformer-based active cell balancing and switched capacitor-based active cell balancing are used. These methods are not only easy to implement but also provide good performance. These balancing circuits are integrated with non-ideal RC models of a lithium-ion battery. The bleed resistor-based passive cell balancing took more than 16000 seconds to reach a 0.01V difference for capacitors with 5F capacitance, whereas the switched capacitor design is estimated to take 500 seconds. The multi-winding flyback active cell balancing system reached a 2% difference in SOC in 1800 seconds. There was a visible increase in time taken for balancing the cells using multi-winding active cell balancing as the cell temperature increased. A 2.32% increase in the time taken for balancing the cells was observed when cell temperature increased from 293K to 313K.

Mammography, which is also calledMastography, is the process of using low-energy X-rays to inspect the human breast for screening and diagnostics. The purpose of mammography is to detect breast cancer early, usually by looking for specific lumps or microcalcifications. The X-rays used are usually around 30 kVp. Excessive voltage to such a machine would be harmful to the patient. Proper monitoring of temperature and pressure needs to be ensured. To ensure this, a start-up sequence module is developed. The start-up sequence module reads the digitized voltage, pressure, and temperature reading from the sensor and asserts all the outputs to ensure that the machine is ready. The scan chain is formed of 13 scan flip-flops in this configuration. The synthesis mapped the design to 484 instances of cells in the open-source PDK technology. The design had a total area of 594 μm2, with a cell width of 0.297 μm, and a height of 0.99 μm.

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