A general class of passive macromodels for efficient sensitivity analysis of high-speed distributed interconnects with nonlinear terminations

Author

Dounavis, Anestis ; Achar, Ramachandra ; Nakhla, Michel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

899

Abstract

A general class of passive macromodelling algorithm for multiport distributed interconnects is presented. A new theorem is described which specifies sufficient conditions for matrix-rational approximation of exponential functions in order to generate a passive macromodel. Also an efficient approach for sensitivity analysis of lossy multiconductor transmission lines in the presence of nonlinear terminations is described

Keywords

distributed parameter networks; interconnections; multiconductor transmission lines; multiport networks; nonlinear network analysis; sensitivity analysis; transmission line theory; exponential function; high-speed multiport distributed interconnect; lossy multiconductor transmission line; matrix-rational approximation; nonlinear termination; passive macromodel algorithm; sensitivity analysis; Circuit simulation; Differential equations; Frequency; Integrated circuit interconnections; Partial differential equations; Propagation losses; Sensitivity analysis; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission line theory; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2001. ICECS 2001. The 8th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7057-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2001.957618

Filename

957618