Synthesizing arbitrary driving-point and transfer characteristics

Author

Chua, Leon O. ; Wu, Chai Wah ; Zhong, Guo-Qun ; Liu, Luis Franscisco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

45

Issue

12

fYear

1998

fDate

12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1225

Lastpage

1232

Abstract

The property of any two-terminal resistive device is characterized by its driving-point (DP) characteristic, and any two-port resistive device with zero input current and a load-independent output voltage is described by its transfer characteristic (TC). Synthesizing a two-port device with a prescribed transfer characteristic is usually easier than synthesizing a two-terminal device with a prescribed driving-point characteristic. In this paper we propose an approach to synthesize a driving-point characteristic of a two-terminal device from the transfer characteristic of a two-port device, so that the resulting DP plot of the two-terminal device is exactly the same as the TC plot of the two-port device. We also illustrate the use of digital circuitry to synthesize arbitrary transfer characteristics. This technique will benefit the design and analysis of complex nonlinear electronic circuits and systems. A variety of characteristics synthesized using this approach are presented

Keywords

multiterminal networks; nonlinear network synthesis; transfer functions; two-port networks; digital circuitry; driving-point characteristic; load-independent output voltage; nonlinear electronic circuits; one-port devices; transfer characteristic; two-port resistive device; two-terminal resistive device; zero input current; Books; Circuit synthesis; Circuits and systems; Electronic circuits; Laboratories; Network synthesis; Nonlinear circuits; Resistors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7122

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/81.736556

Filename

736556