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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2009
Applicants:
Fangyi Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Dan Feng, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Fangyi Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Dan Feng, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods for analyzing circuit distortion based on contributions from separate circuit elements are presented. Local approximations that do not require high-order derivatives of device models are developed near an operating point for calculating distortion summaries including compression summaries and second-order intermodulation (IM2) distortion summaries.