Electro-thermal circuit simulation using simulator coupling

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 277-282

  Wünsche, Stefan ^a   Clauß, Christoph ^a   Schwarz, Peter ^a,b   Winkler, Frank ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS   (Germany)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Analog modeling with behavioral languages; Circuit simulation; Electro thermal circuit simulation; Finite element simulation; Simulator coupling; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0031236388     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.609870     Document Type: Article

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