Clove is a familiar spice widely used in medicinal preparations. The author has unravelled here some of the little known fact of the spice. the origin and spread of this valuable medicinal plants is also discussed here with historical background.

In this paper, a model for vias is presented, based on a recently developed stripline model. The via model has been validated based on measurements and field simulations. The influence of inhomogeneous media in the modeling of striplines has been investigated. This via model together with a generic 3-terminal driver model can be immediately implemented in SPICE simulators, much easily than exis...

The field of optimisation is still not appropriately covered in modern computer programs for circuit analysis as SPICE, which was originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley. The last official release of SPICE was published in 1992 and includes interactive interpreter language called Nutmeg, which is at first glance very convenient for coding optimisation loops. But it turn...

The analogue circuit simulator SPICE was originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley. It was has been constantly upgraded and maintained at Berkeley from 1972 to 1992, when the last official release 3f4 was published. The UNIX based source code is still available as freeware at ftp://ic.berkeley.edu/pub/Spice3/. Although the research at Berkeley has stopped, many commercial...

We thoroughly investigate the performance of Dynamic Memdiode Model (DMM) when used for simulating synaptic weights in large RRAM-based cross-point arrays (CPA) intended neuromorphic computing. The DMM is line with Prof. Chua’s memristive devices theory, which hysteresis phenomenon electroformed metal-insulator-metal structures represented by means two coupled equations: one equation current-vo...

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This paper investigates the properties of the on-wafer coupled interconnects built in a 0.18μm CMOS technology for RF applications. A SPICE compatible equivalent circuit model is developed. The proposed model is an extension of a 2-Π equivalent circuit model for single-line interconnects by adding two coupling components. The model parameters are extracted from four-port S-parameter simulation ...

An original parameters extraction strategy has been developed using a physical and scalable 2π equivalent on-chip spiral inductors RLC circuit model. This strategy based on optimization only, was used to model spice model parameters as a function of geometrical inductor parameters. The data used in this paper were obtained by using a 3D electromagnetic Field Solver combined with a Design of Exp...

A n improved SPICE model has been developed by Fairchild engineers for the simulation of trench power devices using the BSIM3 MOSFET model. The new model architecture seeks to eliminate shortcomings in the level 1 and level 3 subcircuit methods used extensively for modeling MOSFETs in power circuits. The new model offers excellent correlation to product data, transistor scaling not possible wit...

BACKGROUND The accurate definition of organs at risk (OARs) is required to fully exploit the benefits of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer. However, manual delineation is time-consuming and there is considerable inter-observer variability. This is pertinent as function-sparing and adaptive IMRT have increased the number and frequency of delineation of OARs. We eva...