Passive closed-form transmission line macromodel using method of characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 190-202

  Dounavis, Anestis ^a   Pothiwala, Vrajesh A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Delay systems; High speed interconnects; Method of characteristics; Passivity; Positive real functions; Transient analysis; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

HIGH-SPEED INTERCONNECTS; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; POSITIVE REAL FUNCTIONS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION;

EID: 40549138807     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2007.909449     Document Type: Article

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