High-Speed VLSI Interconnections: Second Edition

High-Speed VLSI Interconnections: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-407

  Goel, Ashok K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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