Title : 
The energy bounds in RC circuits
         
        
            Author : 
Marinov, Corneliu A. ; Rubio, Antonio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Bucharest Polytech. Univ., Romania
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Exponentially decreasing upper and lower bounds for the energy of a general RC network are derived. They give simply computable bounds for the global delay time
         
        
            Keywords : 
RC circuits; delay estimation; linear network analysis; lumped parameter networks; matrix algebra; passive networks; RC circuits; energy bounds; global delay time; lower bound; upper bound; Capacitance; Delay effects; Digital circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; Intelligent networks; Joining processes; MOS capacitors; Symmetric matrices; Timing; Voltage;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on