Characterization of analog circuits using transfer function trajectories

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1796-1804

  De Jonghe, Dimitri ^a   Gielen, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

macromodeling; Nonlinear systems; trajectory piecewise (TPW) modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRAJECTORIES; VECTOR SPACES;

BEHAVIORAL LANGUAGES; MACROMODELING; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; PIECE-WISE; STATE-SPACE DESCRIPTION; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; TRAINING SEQUENCES; VECTOR FITTING ALGORITHM;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84864565570     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2180438     Document Type: Article

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