Resolving fundamental issues of slowness in envelope simulation methods

International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 371-381

  Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multitime methods; Multitone; RF; Simulation

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ENVELOPE METHOD; MULTITIME METHODS; MULTITONE; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 21644487830     PISSN: 10964290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmce.20093     Document Type: Article

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