Parallel processing application to nonlinear microwave network design

Author

Sobhy, M.I. ; El-Sawy, Y.A.R.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Lab., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK

Volume

37

Issue

12

fYear

1989

fDate

12/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2067

Lastpage

2073

Abstract

The authors describe the application of parallel processing to the computer-aided design (CAD) of nonlinear microwave circuits. The advantage of parallel processing is the significant reduction in computational time it offers, so that optimization becomes feasible even on a desktop computer. The programs developed run on an AT desktop with one transputer board capable of concurrent processing speeds of over 80 MIPS at a processor speed of 20 MHz. A representation of microwave and nonlinear circuits is developed to provide the required parallelism. Applications to the analysis of nonlinear amplifiers and frequency multipliers are described

Keywords

circuit CAD; microcomputer applications; microwave circuits; nonlinear network synthesis; parallel algorithms; transputers; 20 MHz; 80 MIPS; CAD; IBM AT desktop machine; PC; computational time-reduction; computer-aided design; concurrent processing speeds; desktop computer; frequency multipliers; nonlinear amplifiers; nonlinear microwave network design; optimization; parallel algorithm; parallel processing; transputer board; Application software; Circuit simulation; Concurrent computing; Design automation; Hardware; Microwave circuits; Microwave theory and techniques; Parallel processing; Resistors; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.44123

Filename

44123