Passivity compensation algorithm for method-of-characteristics-based multiconductor transmission line interconnect macromodels

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1061-1072

  Chen, Changzhong ^a   Saraswat, Dharmendra ^b   Achar, Ramachandra ^c   Gad, Emad ^d   Nakhla, Michel S ^c   Yagoub, Mustapha C E ^d  

^a Celestica Design Services   (Canada)

^b Tyco Electronics   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay differential equations; High speed interconnect; Macromodeling; Method of characteristics; Ordinary differential equations; Passivity; Passivity compensation; Passivity verification

Indexed keywords

DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HIGH-SPEED INTERCONNECT; MACROMODELING; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; PASSIVITY; PASSIVITY COMPENSATION; PASSIVITY VERIFICATION;

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; PASSIVATION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 68549099598     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2009.2019795     Document Type: Article

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