Mixed-mode circuit simulation with full-wave analysis of interconnections

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2098-2105

  Ciampolini, Paolo ^a,b   Roselli, Luca ^a,b   Stopponi, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; MIXED MODE CIRCUIT SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 0031271101     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.641390     Document Type: Article

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