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diff --git a/cad/tnt-mmtl/DESCR b/cad/tnt-mmtl/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..78b26964a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/cad/tnt-mmtl/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +TNT-MMTL, the Multilayer Multiconductor Transmission Line 2-D and 2.5-D +electromagnetic modeling tool suite, generates transmission parameters +and SPICE models from descriptions of electronics interconnect +dimensions and materials properties. + +MMTL programs and supporting libraries and documentation have been +under development at the Mayo Clinic since the mid-1980s. The programs +were developed under government sponsored electronics research +programs in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group +(SPPDG). They have been employed extensively at Mayo and distributed +to some government agencies and research collaborators. At the +beginning of 2004, we decided to release the TNT graphical front-end +and MMTL programs as free software under the GNU General Public +License (GPL). Technically, MMTL programs are in the class of 2-D and +2.5-D "field solvers", which convert dimensions and materials +properties into electronic design parameters. The MMTL suite consists +of several programs, including lossy, loss-free, quasi-static, and +full-wave simulators. Circuit parameters are computed by either the +method of moments (MOM) or finite element methods (FEM). Basic +per-unit-length parameters are generated by the simulator, and can be +converted into HSPICE W-element models. MMTL is similar in many ways +to commercial field solver products which typically cost thousands of +dollars. |