A robust envelope following method applicable to both non-autonomous and oscillatory circuits

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1029-1034

  Mei, Ting ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope following; Least squares; Phase condition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ENVELOPE FOLLOWING; NON-AUTONOMOUS CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORY CIRCUITS; PHASE CONDITION;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 34547180000     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146909.1147168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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