Symbolic analysis of large analog integrated circuits: The numerical reference generation problem

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1351-1361

  Fernández, Francisco V ^a   Guerra, Oscar ^a   Rodríguez García, Juan D ^a   Rodríguez Vázquez, Angel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SYMBOLIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032183745     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.728848     Document Type: Article

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