Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
SpringerLink
Log in

Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Authors:
  1. William J. McCalla

    1. Hewkett-Packard, USA

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Circuit Equation Formulation

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 1-16

  3. Linear Equation Solution

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 17-35

  4. Sparse Matrix Methods

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 37-51

  5. Nonlinear Equation Solution

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 53-85

  6. Numerical Integration

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 87-123

  7. Adjoint Networks and Sensitivity

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 125-135

  8. Pole-Zero Evaluation

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 137-147

  9. Statistical Analysis

    • William J. McCalla
    Pages 149-160

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-175
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

From little more than a circuit-theoretical concept in 1965, computer-aided circuit simulation developed into an essential and routinely used design tool in less than ten years. In 1965 it was costly and time consuming to analyze circuits consisting of a half-dozen transistors. By 1975 circuits composed of hundreds of transistors were analyzed routinely. Today, simulation capabilities easily extend to thousands of transistors. Circuit designers use simulation as routinely as they used to use a slide rule and almost as easily as they now use hand-held calculators. However, just as with the slide rule or hand-held calculator, some designers are found to use circuit simulation more effectively than others. They ask better questions, do fewer analyses, and get better answers. In general, they are more effective in using circuit simulation as a design tool. Why? Certainly, design experience, skill, intuition, and even luck contribute to a designer's effectiveness. At the same time those who design and develop circuit simulation programs would like to believe that their programs are so easy and straightforward to use, so well debugged and so efficient that even their own grandmother could design effectively using their program.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hewkett-Packard, USA

    William J. McCalla

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation

  • Authors: William J. McCalla

  • Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2011-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-248-8Published: 30 November 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9199-2Published: 17 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2011-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0893-3405

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 176

  • Topics: Electrical Engineering

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation