A versatile time-domain approach to simulate oscillators in RF circuits

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 594-603

  Maffezzoni, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Envelope following method; Implicit Runge Kutta; Oscillators; RF circuits; Time domain simulation

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ENVELOPE FOLLOWING METHOD; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS; NONAUTONOMOUS CIRCUITS; RF-CIRCUITS; RUNGE-KUTTA INTEGRATION; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; STEADY-STATE RESPONSE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 65849227103     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2002659     Document Type: Article

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