Abstract: A first instrument comprising at least one signal generator, at least one resistor, at least one voltage measurement device including a positive input and a negative input, at least one monitored conductor terminal coupled to a monitored conductor, at least one reference conductor terminal coupled to a reference conductor, and at least one processor operably connected to the at least one signal generator and the at least one voltage measurement device.

Abstract: A packet is processed by encapsulating the packet with a packet-object header if the packet does not have a packet-object header. The encapsulated packet is processed based on information contained in the packet-object header using a plurality of transform modules that are coupled to each other in a series or pipeline configuration. The plurality of transform modules process the encapsulated packet independent of each other.

Abstract: Data structures and methods, systems and computer program products for searching, inserting and/or deleting entries in a database which includes a hash value corresponding to data of the entry and which are stored in a hash-ordered sequence such that a linear search for an entry from an address corresponding to the hash value of the entry will result in the data being located by examining entries in consecutive addresses before an address without an entry is reached are provided. Such methods, systems, computer program products and data structures may be particularly useful for Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) security association databases (SADs).

Abstract: The disclosure is a technique to describe a complex coupled multi-port transmission line system in terms of a time-domain Green's function and then implement this description into a circuit simulator. This permits highly accurate simulation of arbitrary transmission line networks with non-linear transistor level models of digital devices and avoids reliance on non-physical approximations of the behavior of the transmission line or digital device termination. The method is particularly applicable to digital systems which experience transmission line effects of printed circuit board tracks.