A hierarchical neural network approach to the development of a library of neural models for microwave design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 12 PART 2, 1998, Pages 2391-2403

  Wang, Fang ^a   Devabhaktuni, Vijaya Kumar ^a   Zhang, Qi Jun ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Modeling; Neural network

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

HIGH-LEVEL NEURAL MODULES;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032292610     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.739227     Document Type: Article

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