Transient sensitivity computation in controlled explicit piecewise linear simulation

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

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 98-110

  Nguyen, Tuyen V ^a   Devgan, Anirudh ^b   Nastov, Ognen J ^c   Winston, David W ^b  

^a IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TRANSIENTS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLED EXPLICIT SIMULATION; TRANSIENT SENSITIVITY;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0033875357     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.822623     Document Type: Article

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