Smoothing the canonical piecewise-linear model: An efficient and derivable large-signal model for MESFET/HEMT transistors

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 184-192

  Lâzaro, Marceline ^a   Santamaria, Ignacio ^a   Pantaleön, Carlos ^a   Sânchez, Angel Mediavilla ^a   Puente, Antonio Tazon ^a   Fernândez, Tomâs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GRADIENT METHODS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTERMODULATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOSFET DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

NONLINEAR SMOOTHING FUNCTIONS; SMOOTHED PIECEWISE-LINEAR (SPWL) MODEL;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0035249039     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.904883     Document Type: Article

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