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tnt to tnt-mmtl to avoid a conflict with ham/tnt. Addresses PR27100 from Berndt Josef Wulf.
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TNT-MMTL, the Multilayer Multiconductor Transmission Line 2-D and 2.5-D
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electromagnetic modeling tool suite, generates transmission parameters
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and SPICE models from descriptions of electronics interconnect
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dimensions and materials properties.
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MMTL programs and supporting libraries and documentation have been
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under development at the Mayo Clinic since the mid-1980s. The programs
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were developed under government sponsored electronics research
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programs in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group
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(SPPDG). They have been employed extensively at Mayo and distributed
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to some government agencies and research collaborators. At the
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beginning of 2004, we decided to release the TNT graphical front-end
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and MMTL programs as free software under the GNU General Public
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License (GPL). Technically, MMTL programs are in the class of 2-D and
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2.5-D "field solvers", which convert dimensions and materials
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properties into electronic design parameters. The MMTL suite consists
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of several programs, including lossy, loss-free, quasi-static, and
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full-wave simulators. Circuit parameters are computed by either the
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method of moments (MOM) or finite element methods (FEM). Basic
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per-unit-length parameters are generated by the simulator, and can be
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converted into HSPICE W-element models. MMTL is similar in many ways
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to commercial field solver products which typically cost thousands of
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dollars.
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