Simulation of self-heating in advanced high-speed SiGe bipolar circuits using the temperature simulator TESI

2004 Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems: Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 95-98

  Pfost, Martin ^a   Lachner, Rudolf ^a   Li, Hao ^b  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SIMULATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CIRCUIT DEVELOPMENT; MESHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POWER DISSIPATION;

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 20344378426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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