Frequency domain simulation of high-Q oscillators with homotopy methods

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 683-686

  Duan, Xiaochun ^a   Mayaram, Kartikeya ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONS; ERROR TOLERANCE; HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD; SUPPLY VOLTAGE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 16244392395     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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