Design-Oriented Analysis of Circuits With Equality Constraints

This paper presents a design-oriented circuit analysis that is augmented with design constraints. This analysis computes the circuit response and also finds the values of circuit parameters (equal to the number of design specifications) that result in a specified circuit performance. An application of this approach is demonstrated for the periodic steady-state analysis with shooting and finite difference formulations. The new analysis with design equality constraints is several times faster than search-based techniques that employ conventional analysis methods.