A combined feasibility and performance macromodel for analog circuits

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 63-68

  Ding, Mengmeng ^a   Vemuri, Ranga ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Feasibility models; Performance macromodeling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; FEASIBILITY MODELS; PERFORMANCE MACROMODELING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 27944435328     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dac.2005.193774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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