This paper describes some of the more unusual phenomena associated with RF/microwave measurements that have been investigated by the author over the past twelve years. It has been found that, from some high profile publications, microwave measurements have been either performed in error or their results wrongly interpreted. Four categories have been identified and two examples from each are dis...

Does the notion of a quantum randomized or nondeterministic algorithm make sense, and if so, does quantum randomness or nonde-terminism add power? Although reasonable quantum random sources do not add computational power, the discussion of quantum random-ness naturally leads to several deenitions of the complexity of quantum states. Unlike classical string complexity, both deterministic and non...

In this paper two dimensional wave propagation is used for power combining in drain nodes of a distributed amplifier (DA). The proposed two dimensional DA uses an electrical funnel to add the currents of drain nodes. The proposed structure is modified due to gate lines considerations. Total gain improvement is achieved by engineering the characteristic impedance of gate lines and also make appr...

A fully-static flip-flop structure is proposed and compared to both the conventional CMOS flip-flop and the Cascode Voltage Switch Logic (CVSL) static flip-flop proposed by Yuan and Svensson [I], in terms of speed, power consumption and silicon area. Then an add-and-delay circuit is implemented using all three flip-flop structures to demonstrate the performance of the proposed flip-flop. The ad...

The notion of “expressive power” is often used in the literature on planning. However, it is usually only used in an informal way. In this paper, we will formalize this notion using the “compilability framework” and analyze the expressive power of some variants of allowing for conditional effects and arbitrary Boolean formulae in preconditions. One interesting consequence of this analysis is th...

The fused floating point add-subtract unit is useful for digital signal processing (DSP) applications Such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) & discrete cosine transform (DCT) butterfly operations. To improve the performance of fused floating point addsubtract unit, a dual path algorithm& pipelining algorithms are useful .The designs are implemented for both single and double precision. The fused ...

Smart Grids are result of utilizing novel technologies such as distributed energy resources, and communication technologies in power system to compensate some of its defects. Various power resources provide some benefits for operation domain however, power system operator should use a powerful methodology to manage them. Renewable resources and load add uncertainty to the problem. So, independe...

A carry-select adder can be implemented by using single ripple carry adder and an add-one circuit [1] instead of using dual ripple-carry adders. This paper proposes a new add-one circuit using the first zero finding circuit and multiplexers to reduce the area and power with no speed penalty. For bit length n = 64, this new carry-select adder requires 38 percent fewer transistors than the dual r...