An Integrated Tool For High Speed Circuits with Substrate Coupling.

An integrated environment for layout-oriented design of circuits for spatial power combining system is aimed in this study. The simulation environment would include a full-wave electromagnetic simulator and a circuit simulator, fREEDA, with a front engine, which is the major emphasis in this document. fREEDA implements local reference node instead of a global ground and this is crucial for distributed circuits. The models are implemented in object-oriented fashion and uses automatic differentiation. The same model can be used for DC, transient and harmonic balance analysis.

Author dc:creator

• Bollapragada, Rajesh

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Dr. Michael B. Steer, Committee Chair
• Dr. Douglas W. Barlage, Committee Member
• Dr. Rhett W. Davis, Committee Member

• distributed effects
• substrate coupling
• local reference terminal

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etd-05192003-101253

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