Title :
Sensitivity analysis of lossy transmission lines based on the Passive Method of Characteristics
Author :
Beygi, Amir ; Dounavis, Anestis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Abstract :
This paper describes an efficient approach for time domain sensitivity analysis of lossy transmission lines in the presence of nonlinear termination. Sensitivity information is derived using the recently developed passive method of characteristics (PMoC) macromodel. An important feature of the proposed method is that the derivatives of the sensitivity network are obtained analytically from the PMoC macromodel, leading to significant computational advantages.
Keywords :
integrated circuit interconnections; transmission lines; distributed interconnects; lossy transmission lines; nonlinear termination; passive method; sensitivity information; time domain sensitivity analysis; Attenuation; Circuit simulation; Differential equations; Integrated circuit interconnections; Nonlinear circuits; Propagation delay; Propagation losses; Sensitivity analysis; Time domain analysis; Transmission lines;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems, 2009. EPEPS '09. IEEE 18th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4447-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5646-8
DOI :
10.1109/EPEPS.2009.5338451
