• DocumentCode
    1464728
  • Title

    Approximation of state functions in measurement-based transistor model

  • Author

    Van den Bosch, Sven ; Martens, Luc

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    This paper investigates the use of approximation of state functions in measurement-based transistor models. This is especially important when these models are used in third-order intermodulation distortion simulations since the dynamical spline interpolation that is typically used has possible large discontinuities in its third-order derivative. We, therefore, propose a new representation of the state functions in our model and offer a comparison between measurement and simulation to prove the validity of our approach. Also, our model can easily be implemented in any commercially available SPICE simulator, which also is a significant advantage
  • Keywords
    SPICE; function approximation; intermodulation distortion; interpolation; semiconductor device models; splines (mathematics); transistors; SPICE; dynamical spline interpolation; measurement-based model; nonlinearity; simulation; state function approximation; third-order intermodulation distortion; transistor; Circuit simulation; Current measurement; Distortion measurement; Harmonic distortion; Intermodulation distortion; Interpolation; MESFETs; SPICE; Spline; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9480
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/22.740069
  • Filename
    740069