As a method for greatly reducing power dissipation in logic networks, we propose some logic organization techniques for logic networks. By such techniques, their power dissipation is to be minimized under certain input conditions, or the average power dissipation in the whole network should be minimized. A logic network in which these problems are taken into account will be called a power minim...

Abstract The paper suggests a new technique for solution of the inverse problem for Maxwell’s equations in a dissipating medium. Being non-self-adjoint, the problem generally requires computing an adjoint operator on each step of gradient descent minimization procedure. The suggested approach introduces a conjugation operator and develops a representation of the system of Maxwell’s equations ba...

The n-2 repetition cost has been explained by persisting inhibition of a previously valid task set which dissipates over time. This account has two implications, namely that the switch cost decreases with the number of tasks involved in switching and that the cost should also be observed in switching between two tasks. Neither of these implications is supported by empirical evidence. An alterna...

The musculoskeletal system is adept at dissipating potentially damaging energy that could accelerate fracture consequent to multiple loading cycles. Microstructural damage reduces bone's residual properties, but prevents high stresses within the material by dissipating energy that can lead to eventual failure. Thus skeletal microdamage can be viewed as an adaptive process to prevent bone failur...

The effect of electron collisions on reducing the wave-breaking amplitude of resonantly-driven electrostatic fields in a cold plasma is investigated. By means of a simple theory collisions are shown to compete with wave-breaking in dissipating wave energy.

This paper describes a fully integrated neural recording front-end comprising a low-noise two-stageamplification circuitry and a 10-b successive approximationregister (SAR)-based ADC as part of a fully implantable brain-machine-brain interface (BMBI) device for neuroanatomical rewiring of cortical circuitry in an injured brain. Fabricatedusing the TSMC 0.35 μm 2P/4M n-well CMOS ...

Two energy-dissipating systems, an alternative oxidase and an uncoupling protein, are known to exist in plant mitochondria. In tomato fruit mitochondria linoleic acid, a substrate for the uncoupling protein, inhibited the alternative oxidase-sustained respiration and decreased the ADP/O ratio to the same value regardless of the level of alternative oxidase activity. Experiments with varying con...

This paper describes design techniques for multigigahertz digital bipolar circuits with supply voltages as low as 1.5 V. Examples include a 2/1 multiplexer operating at 1 Gb/s with 1.2 mW power dissipation, a D-1atch achieving a maximum speed of 2.2 GHz while dissipating 1.4 mW, two exclusive-OR gates with a delay less than 200 ps and power dissipation of 1.3 mW, and a bufferflevel shifter havi...