Passive and active membrane properties determine the voltage responses of neurons. Within the auditory brain stem, refinements in these intrinsic properties during late postnatal development usually generate short integration times and precise action-potential generation. This developmentally acquired temporal precision is crucial for auditory signal processing. How the interactions of these in...

We present a simple and accurate model to compute the power dissipated in sub-micron CMOS buffers driving RC interconnect lines. The expression obtained accounts for the main effects in current sub-micron CMOS technologies as carrier velocity saturation effects, input-output coupling capacitor, output load, input slew time, device sizes and interconnect resistance. Results are compared to HSPIC...

Four di erent CMOS inverter delay models are derived and compared. It is shown that inverter delay can be estimated with fair accuracy over a wide range of input rise times and loads as the sum of two terms, one proportional to the input rise time, and one proportional to the capacitive load. Methods for estimating device capacitance from HSPICE parameters are presented, as well as means of inc...

A high-performance CMOS unity-gain current amplifier is proposed. The solution adopts two feedback loops to reduce the input resistance and a nested-Miller technique to provide frequency compensation. A design example using a 0.8 mm process and a 2V supply is given and SPICE simulations show a bandwidth of 75MHz, no slew-rate limitations and a settling time better than 50 ns, irrespective of th...

This paper describes the design of a high-efficiency energy harvesting circuit with an integrated antenna. The circuit is composed of series resonance and boost rectifier circuits for converting radio frequency power into boosted direct current (DC) voltage. The measured output DC voltage is 5.67 V for an input of 100 mV at 900 MHz. Antenna input impedance matching is optimized for greater effi...

This study was designed to find which one of the three different presentations, i.e. input, input-output, and output-input, will be more effective in Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary acquisitions. To this end, first 54 out of 64 female students, aged from 19 to 23 years, with an average of 21, were selected out of starter-level EFL learners at the University of Tarbiat Moalem in Bandar Abbas, I...

The goal of the work is the research of formation mechanism of the spot resistance welds in the case of copper wires with nickel and tin coatings. The existing approaches for investigation of the formation mechanisms of welds of wires with and without coatings are analysed. A new approach for modeling of welding joint formation is offered. The analog model of the heat input during resistance we...