Symbolic analysis of analog circuits with hard nonlinearity

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 542-545

  Manthe, Alicia ^a   Li, Zhao ^a   Richard Shi, C J ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit Nonlinearity; PWL; Symbolic Analysis

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONLINEAR NETWORKS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041633730     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/775832.775969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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