ISAAC: A Symbolic Simulator for Analog Integrated Circuits

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 1587-1597

  Gielen, Georges G E ^a   Walscharts, Herman C C ^a   Sansen, Willy M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS--HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ISAAC; SYMBOLIC SIMULATOR ISAAC; SYMBOLIC VS. NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, VLSI;

EID: 0024904709     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.44994     Document Type: Article

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