Efficient iterative time preconditioners for harmonic balance RF circuit simulation

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 251-254

  Veersé, Fabrice ^a  

^a MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ERROR ANALYSIS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

BACKWARD DIFFERENTIATION FORMULAE (BDF); JACOBIAN MATRICES; KRYLOV ITERATIONS;

PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

EID: 0346778742     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iccad.2003.159698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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