High-frequency circuit design oriented compact bipolar transistor modeling with HICUM

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E88-C, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1098-1113

  Schroter, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistors; Compact modeling; HICUM

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CIRCUIT DESIGN; HICUM; PARAMETER EXTRACTION;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 25844521186     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.6.1098     Document Type: Review

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