Flowgraph Models of Integrated Circuits and Film-Type Systems

Flowgraphs provide an ideal description of the functional interdependence of variables in integrated circuits and thin film systems. A wide range of microsystems were examined, typical examples analysed include thin film transistors, environmental perturbations such as radiation effects and switching phenomena in integrated semiconductor networks. Flowgraph techniques are extended and adapted to permit evaluation of performance characteristics and figures-of-merit of devices and circuits. Criteria for constructing models are examined and procedures are developed for establishing models of complex systems on the basis of a set of building blocks of simpler flowgraphs.