Transient Simulation of Arbitrary Nonuniform Interconnection Structures Characterized by Scattering Parameters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 928-937

  Dhaene, Tom ^a   Martens, Luc ^a   Zutter, Daniel De ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CIRCUIT MODELS; HIGH SPEED INTERCONNECTS; NONUNIFORM INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CIRCUIT THEORY;

EID: 0026944821     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.199890     Document Type: Article

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