A Piecewise-Linear Approach to Transient Analysis of Large-Scale Integrated Circuits.

Abstract

A Gauss-Seidel waveform relaxation method is described for time-domain analysis of piecewise-linear circuits. The method relies on approximating both the nonlinear element characteristics and the voltage (or current) waveforms by piecewise-linear functions; and is suitable for timing analysis of large-scale integrated circuits. Keywords: theses; metal oxide semiconductors; large scale integration; linear differential equations; charts; schematic diagrams. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA161307

Entities

People

  • Kenneth K. Jung

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Capacitors
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Circuits
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Digital Circuits
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Logic
  • Nand Gates
  • Semiconductors
  • Step Functions
  • Time Intervals
  • Two Dimensional
  • Universities
  • Very Large Scale Integration

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics