Analytical and experimental verification of substrate noise spectrum for mixed-signal ICs

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1803-1815

  Méndez, Miguel A ^a   Mateo, Diego ^a   Rubio, Antonio ^a   González, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital noise; Integrated circuit (IC) modeling; Mixed analog digital circuits; Substrate noise; System on a chip (SoC)

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUBSTRATES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL NOISE; MIXED ANALOG-DIGITAL CIRCUITS; SUBSTRATE NOISE; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33747817701     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.879065     Document Type: Article

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