Symbolic network analysis-An algebraic formulation

A new and efficient method of symbolic analysis of linear analog active or passive networks is introduced. The method takes advantage of several properties of determinants. By formulating the network equations such that the symbolic parameters appear only once and that too along the principal diagonal of a matrix, a method of weeding out invalid symbol combinations in a network transfer function is given. For the implementation of the method, any efficient numerical method of calculating determinants is all that is necessary. The method is conceptually simple and is computationally advantageous to the existing procedures.