A fully automatic domain partitioning technique for the efficient circuit-level simulation of large nonlinear microwave subsystems

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 349-351

  Rizzoli, Vittorio ^a   Montanari, Emanuele ^a   Lipparini, Alessandro ^a   Masotti, Diego ^a   Mastri, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Domain partitioning; Harmonic balance (HB); Scattering matrix; Y matrix singularities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE SHIFT;

DOMAIN PARTITIONING; HARMONIC BALANCE (HB); SCATTERING MATRIX; Y-MATRIX SINGULARITIES;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 3142724684     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.829299     Document Type: Article

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