An efficient nonlinear circuit simulation technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 548-555

  Dautbegović, Emira ^a   Condon, Marissa ^a   Brennan, Conor ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Integrated circuit (IC) design; Model order reduction; Nonlinear circuit simulation; Wavelet collocation scheme

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; MODULATION; RADIO EQUIPMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) DESIGN; MODEL-ORDER REDUCTION; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT SIMULATION; WAVELET COLLECTION SCHEME;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 14544274547     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.840627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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