A priori interconnect prediction and technology extrapolation are closely intertwined. Interconnect predictions are at the core of technology extrapolation models of achievable system power, area density and speed. Technology extrapolation, in turn, informs a priori interconnect prediction via models of interconnect technology and interconnect optimizations. In this paper, we address the linkag...

Power transmission in one-dimensional nonlinear magnetic metamaterials driven at one end is investigated numerically and analytically in a wide frequency range. The nonlinear magnetic metamaterials are composed of varactor-loaded split-ring resonators which are coupled magnetically through their mutual inductances, forming thus a magnetoiductive transmisison line. In the linear limit, significa...

In skeletal muscle, the myosin molecule contains two sets of noncovalently attached low molecular weight proteins, the regulatory (RLC) and essential (ELC) light chains. To assess the functional and developmental significance of the fast skeletal isoform of the RLC (RLC-f), the murine fast skeletal RLC gene (Mylpf) was disrupted by homologous recombination. Heterozygotes containing an intronic ...

Myosin regulatory light chain (RLC) phosphorylation in skeletal and cardiac muscles modulates Ca(2+)-dependent troponin regulation of contraction. RLC is phosphorylated by a dedicated Ca(2+)-dependent myosin light chain kinase in fast skeletal muscle, where biochemical properties of RLC kinase and phosphatase converge to provide a biochemical memory for RLC phosphorylation and post-activation p...

The paper further elaborates on a passive output that was constructed in [3] with the purpose of providing an energybalance (EB) interpretation for basic interconnection and damping assignment (BIDA [6, 7]). Such output has its roots in power shaping [4], an alternative method to stabilize nonlinear RLC circuits subjected to the dissipation obstacle [6]. It has been recently shown in [5] that t...

This paper introduces an efficient and passive discrete modeling technique for estimating signal propagation delays through on-chip long interconnects that are represented as distributed RLC transmission lines. The proposed delay model is based on a less frequently used numerical approximation technique, called the differential quadrature method (DQM). The DQM can compute the partial derivative...

In the last decades, several researchers have concentrated on the dynamic modeling of nonlinear electrical circuits from an energy-based perspective. A recent perspective is based on the concept of port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems. In this paper, we discuss the relations between the classical Brayton–Moser (BM) equations—stemming from the early sixties—and PH models for topologically complete nonl...

Third generation (3G) packet switched WCDMA networks with high-speed downlink packet access (HSPDA) are currently being deployed worldwide to provide wireless broadband connectivity. When introducing HSDPA in 3G networks the end user experience and system capacity with voice over IP applications improve considerably. When later on adding also high-speed packet uplink access (HSUPA), the system ...

Single and double electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a medium, consisting of fourlevel atoms in the inverted-Y configuration, are discussed using mechanical and electrical analogies. A three coupled spring-mass system subject to damping and driven by an external force is used to represent the four-level atom mechanically. The equations of motion of this system are solved analytic...