CAD techniques for microwave circuits

Electronics and Communication Engineering Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages

  Robertson, I D ^a   Karacaoglu, U ^a   Sanchez Hernandez D ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MICROSTRIP LINES; REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE DESIGN SUITE (MDS); SIMULATABLE MICROWAVE ARTWORKS (SMART); SIMULATION PROGRAM WITH INTEGRATED CIRCUIT EMPHASIS (SPICE); TRANSVERSAL ELECTROMAGNETIC (TEM) PROPAGATION;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030399365     PISSN: 09540695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ecej:19960601     Document Type: Article

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