Design centering using an approximation to the constraint region

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 598-607

  Wojciechowski, Jacek M ^a   Opalski, Leszek J ^a   Zamłyński, Krzysztof ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ACCEPTABILITY REGION; ELLIPSOIDAL APPROXIMATION; MULTIDOMAIN SYSTEMS; STATISTICALLY DISTRIBUTED PARAMETERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 4544333063     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.822738     Document Type: Article

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