State of the Art and Present Trends in Nonlinear Microwave CAD Techniques

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 343-365

  Rizzoli, Vittorio ^a   Neri, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERMODULATION; OPTIMIZATION;

LOGICAL SEQUENCE; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VECTOR PROCESSING;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0023961709     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.3524     Document Type: Article

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