Delay and Crosstalk Simulation of High-Speed VLSI Interconnects with Nonlinear Terminations

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

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1798-1811

  Xie, Dong H ^a   Nakhla, Michel ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASYMPTOTIC WAVEFORM EVALUATION (AWE); NONLINEAR TERMINATIONS;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0027701261     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: 19374151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.248091     Document Type: Article

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