Efficient DDD-Based Interpretable Symbolic Characterization of Large Analog Circuits

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E86-A, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3110-3118

  Tan, Sheldon X D ^a   Shi, C J Richard ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral modeling; Circuit simulation; Determinant decision diagrams; Symbolic analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL MODELING; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DETERMINANT DECISION DIAGRAMS (DDD); SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS;

ANALOG COMPUTERS;

EID: 0842310643     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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