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  1. Oscillator Array Models for Associative Memory and Pattern Recognition

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  2. Analysis and Design of Weakly Coupled LC Oscillator Arrays Based on Phase-Domain Macromodels

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  3. Phase Noise of Pulse Injection-Locked Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  4. Stochastic testing simulator for integrated circuits and MEMS: Hierarchical and sparse techniques

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  5. A Study of Deterministic Jitter in Crystal Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, April 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  6. Analysis and Design of Low-Jitter Digital Bang-Bang Phase-Locked Loops

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Paolo Samorì, Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  7. Nonlinear Phase-Domain Macromodeling of Injection-Locked Frequency Dividers

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  8. Exploiting Stochastic Resonance to Enhance the Performance of Digital Bang-Bang PLLs

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Paolo Samorì, Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  9. Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for the Periodic Steady State of Forced and Autonomous Circuits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  10. A Unified Method for the Analysis of Phase and Amplitude Noise in Electrical Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  11. A simulation technique to compute phase noise induced from cyclostationary noise sources in RF oscillators

    Article • May 2013, SPIE

    Professor Paolo Samorì, Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  12. Simulating phase noise induced from cyclostationary noise sources

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Paolo Samorì, Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  13. An efficient method to compute phase-noise in injection-locked frequency dividers

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Paolo Samorì, Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  14. Minimum-jitter design of bang-bang PLLs in the presence of 1/f2 and 1/f3 DCO noise

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  15. Comparing techniques for spur reduction in digital bang-bang PLLs

    Article • Electronics Letters, April 2013, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  16. Phase-Noise Analysis and Simulation of LC Oscillator-Based Injection-Locked Frequency Dividers

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  17. Efficient Calculation of the Impulse Sensitivity Function in Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  18. Analysis of VCO Phase Noise in Charge-Pump Phase-Locked Loops

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  19. Computing the Perturbation Projection Vector of Oscillators via Frequency Domain Analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  20. An efficient linear-time variant simulation technique of oscillator phase sensitivity function

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  21. An Experimental Method to Extract the Phase-Sensitivity of Oscillators to Noise Perturbations

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  22. Stochastic Analysis of Switched-Capacitor Circuits for Sampled Data Converters

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, March 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  23. Phase-Noise Reduction in Oscillators via Small-Signal Injection

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  24. Analysis of Phase Diffusion Process in Oscillators Due to White and Colored-Noise Sources

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  25. Extracting oscillators phase-sensitivity to noise perturbations

    Article • August 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  26. Behavioral phase-noise analysis of charge-pump phase-locked loops

    Article • August 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  27. Time-domain analysis of phase-noise and jitter in oscillators due to white and colored noise sources

    Article • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  28. Reducing noise in relaxation oscillators through high-order synchronisation

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2011, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  29. Computing low-frequency noise in charge-pump phase-locked loops

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2011, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  30. Computing the Synchronization Regions of Injection-Locked Strongly Nonlinear Oscillators for Frequency Division Applications

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  31. Analysis and Design of Injection-Locked Frequency Dividers by Means of a Phase-Domain Macromodel

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, November 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  32. Estimating the locking range of analog dividers through a phase-domain macromodel

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  33. Synchronization Analysis of Two Weakly Coupled Oscillators Through a PPV Macromodel

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  34. Modeling and Simulation of a Hybrid Photovoltaic Module Equipped With a Heat-Recovery System

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  35. Evaluating the effects of temperature gradients and currents nonuniformity in on-chip interconnects

    Article • Microelectronics Journal, July 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  36. A Versatile Time-Domain Approach to Simulate Oscillators in RF Circuits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  37. Compact Electrothermal Macromodeling of Photovoltaic Modules

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, February 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  38. Evaluating Pulling Effects in Oscillators Due to Small-Signal Injection

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  39. Compact thermal networks for conjugate heat transfer by moment matching

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  40. Triangulation method for structure functions of multi-directional heat-flows

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  41. Multi-physics analysis of a photovoltaic panel with a heat recovery system

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  42. Analysis of Oscillator Injection Locking Through Phase-Domain Impulse-Response

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  43. Unified Computation of Parameter Sensitivity and Signal-Injection Sensitivity in Nonlinear Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  44. Semi-implicit integration method for the time-domain simulation of thermal responses

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  45. Steady-state analysis of strongly nonlinear Oscillators By Means of Runge-Kutta Methods

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  46. Frequency-Shift Induced by Colored Noise in Nonlinear Oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Analog and Digital Signal Processing, October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  47. Closed-Form expression of frequency pulling in unlocked-driven nonlinear oscillators

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  48. Efficient Multiparameter Sensitivity Computation of Amplifier Harmonic Distortion

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Analog and Digital Signal Processing, March 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  49. Time-Domain Simulation of Nonlinear Circuits Through Implicit Runge–Kutta Methods

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, February 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  50. Event-Driven Time-Domain Simulation of Closed-Loop Switched Circuits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  51. Multipoint moment matching reduction from port responses of dynamic thermal networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, December 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  52. Computation of period sensitivity functions for the simulation of phase noise in oscillators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, April 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  53. A Statistical Approach to Derive an Electrical Port Model of Capacitively Coupled Interconnects

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, April 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  54. Applying iterative methods to the analysis of VLSI circuits

    Article • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  55. Analytical Multipoint Moment Matching Reduction of Distributed Thermal Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, March 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  56. Compact Thermal Networks for Modeling Packages

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, March 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  57. Measurements and extractions of parasitic capacitances in ulsi layouts

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, November 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  58. Study of statistical approaches to the solution of linear discrete and integral problems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, September 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  59. Compact modeling of electrical devices for electrothermal analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, April 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  60. Envelope-following method to compute steady-state solutions of electrical circuits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, March 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  61. An arnoldi based thermal network reduction method for electro-thermal analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, March 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  62. Accurate electro-thermal model of avalanching junctions subject to ESD currents

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2003, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  63. Modeling the thermal response of semiconductor devices through equivalent electrical networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, August 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  64. Analysis of substrate coupling by means of a stochastic method

    Article • IEEE Electron Device Letters, June 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  65. Thermal networks for electro-thermal analysis of power devices

    Article • Microelectronics Journal, October 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  66. Electro-thermal resonance in MOSFET devices

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2001, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  67. An Efficient Tool for Extraction of Interconnect Models in Submicron Layouts

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  68. Statistical method for the analysis of interconnects delay in submicrometer layouts

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 2001, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  69. Electro-thermal analysis of paralleled bipolar devices

    Article • Microelectronics Journal, October 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  70. Envelope following method for the transient analysis of electrical circuits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, July 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  71. Modelling delay and crosstalk in VLSI interconnect for electrical simulation

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2000, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  72. Analysis of fast electrothermal dynamics in power BJT

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, January 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  73. A statistical algorithm for 3D capacitance extraction

    Article • IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, January 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  74. Exploiting electro-thermal resonance in high voltage power bipolar devices

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 1999, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  75. Efficient method for simulating time delays of distributed interconnections in VLSI circuits

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 1999, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  76. Identification and quantification of methane and ethyl alcohol in an environment at variable humidity by an hybrid array

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, October 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  77. A Newton-Powell modification algorithm for harmonic balance-based circuit analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, January 1994, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  78. Parametric Compact Models by Directional Moment Matching

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  79. Boundary condition independent compact models of dynamic thermal networks with many heat sources

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  80. A new unsupervised learning algorithm for the placement of centers in a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN)

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  81. Thermal macro-modeling of a surface mounted package with a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) tool

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  82. Approximate radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN) to learn smooth relations from noisy data

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  83. VLSI design of radial functions hardware generator for neural computations

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  84. Physical interpretation and numerical approximation of structure functions of components and packages

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  85. Multivariate moment matching for generating boundary condition independent compact dynamic thermal networks of packages

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni

  86. A new diode model formulation for electro-thermal analysis

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paolo Maffezzoni