Papers Published

1. Carastro, Lawrence A. and Poddar, Ravi and Moon, Emily and Brooke, Martin A. and Jokerst, Nan M., Passive device modeling methodology using nonlinear optimization, Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 6 (1999), pp. -53--56 - [ISCAS.1999.780093] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/11)

   Abstract:
   In this paper we describe a method of accurately modeling new passive devices by deembedding the many building blocks from which they are built from just a few test structures. We use a nonlinear optimizer to find the optimal models for the building blocks by fitting extensive high frequency measurements of the test structures behavior. Key results are: the number of test structures needed is much less than the number of parameters and building blocks to be extracted; the extracted models of the building blocks are very predictive of the behavior of new devices built from them; and this methodology is much faster than other finite element like methods.

   Keywords:
   Mathematical models;Optimization;Circuit theory;