Hierarchical harmonic balance methods for frequency-domain analog circuits analysis

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2089-2101

  Dong, Wei ^a,b   Li, Peng ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic balance; Hierarchical preconditioning; Simulation

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL HARMONIC BALANCE; HIERARCHICAL PRECONDITIONING;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 36349004858     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2007.907018     Document Type: Article

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