Macromodel construction and verification: Enhancing the process with dimensional analysis

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 34-39

  Kayssi, Ayman I ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS;

ACCURACY; BEHAVIORAL MACROMODEL; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; MACROMODEL CONSTRUCTION; MACROMODEL VERIFICATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032073424     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/101.678954     Document Type: Article

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