Neural-network approaches to electromagnetic-based modeling of passive components and their applications to high-frequency and high-speed nonlinear circuit optimization

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 II, 2004, Pages 436-449

  Ding, Xiaolei ^a   Devabhaktuni, Vijay K ^a   Chattaraj, Biswarup ^a,b   Yagoub, Mustapha C E ^c   Deo, Makarand ^a   Xu, Jianjun ^a   Zhang, Qi Jun ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic (EM); Embedded passives; Modeling; Neural networks; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; STATE SPACE METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BASED MODELING; EMBEDDED PASSIVES; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVE COMPONENTS;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 1242286117     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.820889     Document Type: Article

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