Fully automated electrothermal simulation using standard CAD tools

2006 25th International Conference on Microelectronics, MIEL 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 451-454

  De Paola, F M ^a   Nowakowski, J P ^a   D'Alessandro, V ^a   Rinaldi, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ANALYTICS; MICROELECTRONICS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

ADVANCED DESIGN SYSTEM; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS; ELECTRO-THERMAL SIMULATION; ELECTROTHERMAL ANALYSIS; STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICES; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 77956548993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMEL.2006.1650998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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