Accurate and efficient modeling of FET cold noise sources using ANNs

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 432-437

  Weatherspoon, Mark H ^a   Langoni, Diego ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks (ANNs); Field effect transistor (FET) cold noise source; Levenberg Marquardt (LM) backpropagation; Noise temperature; Radial basis function (RBF); Resilient backpropagation (RP); Two port noise source theory

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESFET DEVICES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

AVERAGE-RELATIVE ERROR; COLD NOISE; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT BACKPROPAGATION; MAXIMUM LOCAL RELATIVE ERROR; RESILIENT BACKPROPAGATION;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 39449093347     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.909958     Document Type: Article

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