A device and a process for producing a corrugated plate having a plurality of bent-into-contact portions extending in parallel on one face of a metal plate employs a number of steps. Upon misses in the TLB and shared TLB, access to a translation table in external memory can be made using either a hardware mechanism or a software function. Fixed-rate FDMA uplinks include information designating related channels as containing related source information. Each arc may be assigned a weight equal to the number of rows in which the two items appear together. Each tie bar is connected to a corresponding gold finger body, and the tie bars are disposed across the board edge. The input driving voltages may correspond to a ternary voltage waveform such that during a given phase, the two transistors coupled in series with the sense resistors may be turned off.