A multi-harmonic probe technique for computing oscillator steady states

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 609-612

  Boianapally, Kapil Dev ^a   Mei, Ting ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PROBES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AUGMENTING HARMONIC BALANCE; HARMONIC BALANCE (HB); MULTI HARMONIC PROBE (MHP); OSCILLATOR STEADY STATES;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33751424099     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2005.1560139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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