Interdependent latch setup/hold time characterization via Euler-Newton curve tracing on state-transition equations

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 136-141

  Srivastava, Shweta ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; Euler Newton; Hold time; Interdependence; Setup time

Indexed keywords

EULER-NEWTON CURVE; HOLD TIME; MOORE-PENROSE NEWTON METHOD; SETUP TIME; TRANSITION FUNCTION;

CHARACTERIZATION; JACOBIAN MATRICES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 34547263548     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2007.375140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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