Fully coupled dynamic electro-thermal simulation

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 250-257

  Digele, Georg ^a,b   Lindenkreuz, Steffi ^a   Kasper, Erich ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SILICON ON SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SABER;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0031234840     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.609867     Document Type: Article

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