| Books | |
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| 2004 | Kenneth S. Kundert and Olaf Zinke. The Designer’s Guide to Verilog-AMS. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 2004. |
| 1995 | Kenneth S. Kundert. The Designer’s Guide to SPICE and Spectre. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 1995. |
| 1990 | Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Steady-State Methods for Simulating Analog And Microwave Circuits. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 1990. |
| Websites | |
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| Designer’s Guide Consulting. Automatic model and testbench generation. | |
| The Designer’s Guide Community. Reference material on simulation and modeling. | |
| Verilog-AMS. Verilog-A/MS reference material and models. | |
| Nurdletech. Linux utilities. | |
| Refereed Publications | |
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| 2020 | Geoffrey J. Coram, Colin C. McAndrew, Kiran K. Gullapalli, and Kenneth S. Kundert. Flicker Noise Formulations in Compact Models. Paper. Supporting material. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. Vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 2812-2821. October 2020. |
| 2009 | Henry Chang and Ken Kundert. Introduction to Analog Verification. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. Published in JSSC under the title ‘Verifying all of an SOC — Analog Circuitry Included’. Fall 2009. |
| 2007 | Henry Chang and Ken Kundert. Verification of Complex Analog and RF IC Designs. Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 622-639. March 2007. |
| Ognen Nastov, Rircardo Telichevesky, Ken Kundert and Jacob White. Fundamentals of Fast Simulation Algorithms for RF Circuits. Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 600-621. March 2007. | |
| 2006 | Ken Kundert and Henry Chang. Verification of Complex Analog Integrated Circuits. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC. September 2006. |
| 2005 | K. S Kundert. Challenges in RF Simulation. Paper. Presentation. RFIC Symposium. 2005. |
| 2004 | J. Lee, K. Kundert, and B. Razavi. Analysis and modeling of bang-bang clock and data recovery circuits. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. JSSC, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1571-1580. September 2004. |
| 2003 | L. Lemaitre, G. Coram, C. McAndrew, and K. Kundert. Extensions to Verilog-A to support compact device modeling. Proceedings of the 2003 International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference. BMAS-03, pp. 134-138. October 2003. |
| Jri Lee; K. S. Kundert, and B. Razavi. Modeling of jitter in bang-bang clock and data recovery circuits. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-03, pp. 711-714. September 2003. | |
| 2002 | M. T. Terrovitis, K. S. Kundert, and R. G. Meyer. Cyclostationary noise in radio-frequency communication systems. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications. TCAS1, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 1666-1671. November 2002. |
| K. Kundert. Future directions in mixed-signal behavioral modeling. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation. BMAS-02, pp. 150-183. October 2002. | |
| 2001 | Mike Tian, V. Visvanathan, Jeffery Hantgan, and Kenneth Kundert. Striving for small-signal stability. IEEE Circuits and Devices. Vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 31-41. January 2001. |
| 2000 | Ken Kundert, Henry Chang, Dan Jefferies, Gilles Lamont, Enrico Malavasi, Fred Sendig. Design of mixed-signal systems on chip. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. TCAD, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1561-1571. December 2000. |
| Paolo Miliozzi, Ken Kundert, Koen Lampaert, Pete Good and Mojy Chian. A design system for RFIC: challenges and solutions. The Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 88, no. 10, pp. 1613-1632. October 2000. | |
| J. Phillips and K. Kundert. Noise in mixers, oscillators, samplers, and logic: an introduction to cyclostationary noise. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-00. May 2000. | |
| 1999 | Ken Kundert. Introduction to RF simulation and its application. Journal of Solid-State Circuits. JSSC, vol. 34, no. 9. September 1999. |
| Dan Feng, Joel Phillips, Keith Nabors, Ken Kundert, and Jacob White. Efficient computation of quasi-periodic circuit operating conditions via a mixed frequency/time approach. Proceedings of the 36th Design Automation Conference. DAC-99. June 1999. | |
| Jess Chen, Dan Feng, Joel Phillips, and Ken Kundert. Simulation and modeling of intermodulation distortion in communication circuits. The IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-99. May 1999. | |
| Masayuki Takahashi, Kimihiro Ogawa, and Ken Kundert. VCO jitter simulation and its comparison with measurement. Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference. ASP-DAC 99, vol.1, pp. 85-88. 1999. | |
| 1998 | Ken Kundert. Introduction to RF Simulation and its Application. Proceedings of the IEEE 1998 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting. BCTM-98. September 1998. |
| J. Phillips, D. Feng, K. Kundert and J. White. Numerical characterization of noise in oscillators. International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems. July 1998. | |
| 1997 | Ken Kundert. Simulation methods for RF integrated circuits. IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. ICCAD-97. November 1997. |
| Keith Nabors, Tze-Ting Fang, Hung-Wen Chang, Ken Kundert, and Jacob White. Lumped Interconnect Models Via Gaussian Quadrature. Proceedings of the 34th Design Automation Conference. DAC-97. June 1997. | |
| 1996 | Ricardo Telichevesky, Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White. Efficient AC and noise analysis of two-tone RF circuits. Proceedings of the 33rd Design Automation Conference. DAC-96. June 1996. |
| Yngve Thodeson, Ken Kundert. Parametric harmonic balance. IEEE International Microwave Symposium Digest. MTT-S 96. June 1996. | |
| Ricardo Telichevesky, Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White. Receiver characterization using periodic small-signal analysis. Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-96. May 1996. | |
| R. Telichevesky, K. Kundert, I. El-Fadel, J. White. Fast simulation algorithms for RF circuits. Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-96. May 1996. | |
| 1995 | Ricardo Telichevesky, Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White. Efficient Steady-State Analysis based on Matrix-Free Krylov-Subspace Methods. Proceedings of the 32nd Design Automation Conference. DAC-95. June 1995. |
| Daniel FitzPatrick and Kenneth S. Kundert. Simplified formulation methodology for describing analog behavior. Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Electronic Hardware Languages. January 1995. | |
| Mark Williams, Ron Vogelsong, and Kenneth S. Kundert. Simulation and modeling of nonlinear magnetics. International Conference on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS-95. 1995. | |
| 1994 | L. Miguel Silveira, Ibrahim M. El-Fadel, Jacob K. White, Moni Chilukuri, and Kenneth S. Kundert. Efficient frequency-domain modeling and circuit simulation of transmission lines. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology — Part B: Advanced Packaging. November 1994. |
| L. Miguel Silveira, Ibrahim M. El-Fadel, Jacob K. White, Moni Chilukuri, and Kenneth S. Kundert. An efficient approach to transmission line simulation using measured or tabulated S-parameter data. Proceedings of the 31st Design Automation Conference. DAC-94. June 1994. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Accurate Fourier analysis for circuit simulators. Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. (This is a slightly extended version of the paper). May 1994. | |
| 1989 | Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. A mixed frequency-time approach for distortion analysis of switching filter circuits. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. JSSC. April 1989. |
| 1988 | Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. An envelope-following method for the efficient transient simulation of switching power and filter circuits. IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. ICCAD-88. November 1988. |
| Kenneth S. Kundert, Jacob K. White, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Mixed frequency-time approach for finding the steady-state solution of clocked analog circuits. Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-88. May 1988. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Finding the steady-state response of analog and microwave circuits. Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. CICC-88. May 1988. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert, Gregory B. Sorkin and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Applying harmonic balance to almost-periodic circuits. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. MTT. February 1988. | |
| 1987 | Gregory B. Sorkin, Kenneth S. Kundert and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. An almost-periodic Fourier transform for use with harmonic balance. 1987 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest. MTT-S. June 1987. |
| 1986 | Kenneth S. Kundert and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Simulation of nonlinear circuits in the frequency domain. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. TCAD. October 1986. |
| 1985 | Kenneth S. Kundert and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Nonlinear circuit simulation in the frequency-domain. ICCAD-85 Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. ICCAD-85. November 1985. |
| Invited Publications | |
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| 2011 | Ken Kundert and Henry Chang. Analog Verification. Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems. P. Li, L. Silveira, P. Feldman (editors). Springer. 2011. |
| Ken Kundert. Life After SPICE. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. Spring 2011. | |
| 2005 | Ken Kundert. Applying Top-Down Verification Concepts to Compact Models. Workshop on Compact Modeling for RF/Microwave Applications. CMRF. 2005. |
| Ken Kundert and Henry Chang. Top-Down Design and Verification of Mixed-Signal Circuits. Planet Analog. Local. 28 June 2005. | |
| 2003 | Ken Kundert. Predicting the phase noise and jitter of PLL-based frequency synthesizers. Phase-Locking in High Performance Systems. Behzad Razavi (editor). IEEE Press. 2003. |
| Ken Kundert. Principles of top-down mixed-signal design. Paper. Presentation. International Solid-State Circuits Conference. A tutorial presented as part of an ISSCC short course. February 2003. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Nonlinear circuit simulation in the frequency-domain. The Best of ICCAD, 20 Years of Excellence in Computer-Aided Design. Andreas Kuehlmann (editor). Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert and Jacob White. Highlights in physical simulation and analysis at ICCAD. The Best of ICCAD, 20 Years of Excellence in Computer-Aided Design. Andreas Kuehlmann (editor). Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003. | |
| 2002 | Ken Kundert. Future Directions in Mixed-Signal Behavioral Modeling. Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference. BMAS-02. 2002. |
| 2001 | Ken Kundert. A Formal Top-Down Design Process of Analog Mixed-Signal Circuits. Paper. Presentation. Electronic Design Processes Workshop. 2001. |
| 2000 | Ken Kundert, Henry Chang, Dan Jefferies, Gilles Lamont, Enrico Malavasi, Fred Sendig. Design of mixed-signal systems on chip. Computer-Aided Design of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems, Rob A. Rutenbar, Georges G. E. Gielen and Brian A. Antao (editors). IEEE Press. TCAD, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1561-1571. December 2000. |
| Ken Kundert. Top-down design of mixed-signal circuits. Analog Circuit Design. Rudy J. van de Plassche, Johan H. Huijsing, Willy M.C. Sansen (editors). Kluwer Academic Publishers. November 2000. | |
| 1999 | Joel Phillips and Ken Kundert. Cyclostationary Noise in RF Circuits. Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Conference. November 1999. |
| 1998 | Ken Kundert and Geoff Dawe. Accurate Simulation of Noise Figure for an RF ASIC Design. Microwaves and RF. October 1998. |
| Ken Kundert. Mixed-signal system on chip. A tutorial presented at the Design Automation Conference. DAC-98. June 1998. | |
| Geoff Dawe and Ken Kundert. Design and simulation of an RF transceiver. Communication Systems Design. Vol. 4, no. 5. May 1998. | |
| 1997 | Ken Kundert. Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in Phase-Locked Loops. Analog Circuit Design: RF Analog-to-Digital Converters; Sensor and Actuator Interfaces; Low-Noise Oscillators, PLLs and Synthesizers. Rudy J. van de Plassche, Johan H. Huijsing, Willy M.C. Sansen (editors). Kluwer Academic Publishers. November 1997. |
| 1996 | Eric S. Filseth, Kenneth S. Kundert. Simulation strategies for RF design. Electronic Engineering. Vol. 68, no. 832. April 1996. |
| 1993 | Ken Kundert and Ian Clifford. Achieving accurate results with a circuit simulator. Paper. Presentation. IEE Colloquium on SPICE: Surviving Problems in Circuit Evaluation. 1993. |
| Other Notable Publications | |
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| 2012 | Ken Kundert. Introduction to Bipolar Transistors. Designer’s Guide Community. March 2012. |
| 2011 | Ken Kundert. Introduction to Phasors. Designer’s Guide Community. September 2011. |
| Ken Kundert. Introduction to Feedback. Designer’s Guide Community. September 2011. | |
| 2010 | Ken Kundert. Introduction to the Fourier Series. Designer’s Guide Community. October 2010. |
| Ken Kundert. Verification of Bit-Error Rate in Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery Circuits. Designer’s Guide Community. May 2010. | |
| 2006 | Ken Kundert. A Test Bench for Differential Circuits. Designer’s Guide Community. September 2006. |
| Ken Kundert. Simulating Switched-Capacitor Filters with SpectreRF. Designer’s Guide Community. July 2006. | |
| Ken Kundert. The Probe/Source Approach to Analog Modeling. Designer’s Guide Community. June 2006. | |
| 2002 | Ken Kundert. Predicting the Phase Noise and Jitter of PLL-Based Frequency Synthesizers. Designer’s Guide Community. August 2002. |
| Ken Kundert. Modeling Varactors. Designer’s Guide Community. June 2002. | |
| Mark Williams, Ron Vogelsong, and Ken Kundert. Simulation and Modeling of Nonlinear Magnetics. Designer’s Guide Community. June 2002. | |
| Ken Kundert. Accurate and Rapid Measurement of IP₂ and IP₃. Designer’s Guide Community. May 2002. | |
| Ken Kundert. www.designers-guide.org. Website established to support The Designer’s Guide series of books. March 2002. | |
| 2001 | Ken Kundert. Modeling Skin Effect in Inductors. Designer’s Guide Community. October 2001. |
| Ken Kundert. The Fracpole Suite. Designer’s Guide Community. October 2001. | |
| 2000 | Joel Phillips and Ken Kundert. Noise in Mixers, Oscillators, Samplers, and Logic: An Introduction to Cyclostationary Noise. Designer’s Guide Community. May 2000. |
| 1999 | Manolis Terrovitis and Ken Kundert. Device Noise Simulation of ΔΣ Modulators. Designer’s Guide Community. August 1999. |
| 1989 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Steady-State Methods for Simulating Analog Circuits. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, April 1989. Available through Electronic Research Laboratory Publications, U. C. B., 94720, Memorandum No. UCB/ERL M89/63. April 1989. |
| 1988 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and T. Sugawara. Techniques for finding the periodic steady-state response of circuits. Analog Methods for Circuit Analysis and Diagnosis. T. Ozawa (editor). Marcel Dekker. 1988. |
| 1986 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Sparse matrix techniques. Circuit Analysis, Simulation and Design (part 1). A. E Ruehli (editor). North-Holland. 1986. |
| 1983 | Kenneth S. Kundert. A Switched-Capacitor Synchronous Detector. Masters thesis, University of California at Berkeley. Available through Electronic Research Laboratory Publications, U. C. B., 94720. Memorandum No. UCB/ERL M83/6. June 1983. |
| 1982 | Ken Kundert. Modeling Dielectric Absorption in Capacitors. March 1982. |
| 1979 | Ken Kundert. Power Supply Noise Reduction. Designer’s Guide Community. 1979. |
| Patents | |
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| 2014 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and system for implementing parallel execution in a computing system and in a circuit simulator. Patent 8,775,149. July 2014. |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and system for implementing circuit simulators. Patent 8,762,123. June 2014. | |
| Kenneth Scott Kundert. Method and system for implementing parallel execution in a computing system and in a circuit simulator. Patent 8,738,348. May 2014. | |
| 2012 | Joel Phillips, Sherry Solden, Henry Chang, Kenneth Kundert, Ted Vucurevich. Method and system for implementing a waveform viewer. Patent 8,325,188. December 2012. |
| Kenneth Kundert. Method and system for implementing parallel execution in a computing system and in a circuit simulator. Patent 8,224,636. July 2012. | |
| Dan Feng, Joel Phillips, Kenneth Kundert. Method and apparatus for simulating quasi-periodic circuit operating conditions using a mixed frequency/time algorithm. Patent 8,195,440. June 2012. | |
| 2010 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and system for implementing circuit simulators. Patent 7,827,017. November 2010. |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Methods and system for implementing, controlling. and interfacing with circuit simulators. Patent 7,822,590. October 2010. | |
| 2009 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Methods of model compilation for models used in an electronic circuit simulator. Patent 7,574,342. August 2009. |
| Dan Feng, Joel Phillips, Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and apparatus for simulating quasi-periodic circuit operating conditions using a mixed frequency/time algorithm. Patent 7,493,240. February 2009. | |
| 2003 | Ricardo Telichevsky, Kenneth S. Kundert, and Jacob White. Method for Determining the Steady-State Behavior of a Circuit using an Iterative Technique. Patent 6,636,839. October 2003. |
| 2002 | Ricardo Telichevsky, Kenneth S. Kundert, and Jacob White. Method for Determining the Steady-State Behavior of a Circuit using an Iterative Technique. Patent 6,493,849. December 2002. |
| Don O’Riordan, Walter Ghijsen, and Kenneth S. Kundert. System and Method for Simulating Circuits Using Inline Subcircuits. Patent 6,381,563. April 2002. | |
| 2000 | Ricardo Telichevsky, Kenneth S. Kundert, and Jacob White. Method for Determining the Steady-State Behavior of a Circuit using an Iterative Technique. Patent 6,151,698. November 2000. |
| 1999 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and Apparatus for a Simplified System Simulation Description (continuation of 5,859,785). Patent 5,949,992. September 1999. |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and Apparatus for a Simplified System Simulation Description (continuation of 5,812,431). Patent 5,859,785. January 1999. | |
| 1998 | Kenneth S. Kundert. Method and Apparatus for a Simplified System Simulation Description. Patent 5,812,431. September 1998. |
| 1997 | Daniel FitzPatrick and Kenneth S. Kundert. System and Method for Behavioral Description Translation. Patent 5,634,115. May 1997. |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Improved Modeling of Multi-Disciplinary Signals. Patent 5,623,419. April 1997. | |
| Kenneth S. Kundert. Ratiometric Fourier Analyzer. Patent 5,610,847. March 1997. | |
| 1994 | Kenneth S, Kundert and Jacob K. White. Method and Means for Communicating between Simulation Engine and Component Models in a Circuit Simulator. Patent 5,335,191. August 1994. |