Sensitivity Computation in Piecewise Approximate Circuit Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 171-183

  Feldmann, Peter ^a   Nguyen, Tuyen V ^a   Director, Stephen W ^a   Rohrer, Ronald A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS--COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOS; TRANSISTORS, FIELD EFFECT;

MOS TRANSISTORS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, LSI;

EID: 0026108052     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: 19374151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.68404     Document Type: Article

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