Full-wave analysis of high-speed interconnects using complex frequency hopping

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 997-1016

  Achar, Ramachandra ^a   Nakhla, Michel S ^a   Zhang, Qi Jun ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Distributed networks; Full wave analysis; High speed interconnects; Model order reduction; Moment matching techniques

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

MOMENT MATCHING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032184443     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.728920     Document Type: Article

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