Method for steady-state simulation of strongly nonlinear circuits in the time domain

Author

Brambilla, Angelo ; D´Amore, D.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

48

Issue

7

fYear

2001

fDate

7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

885

Lastpage

889

Abstract

This paper describes a method for the determination of the steady-state solution of autonomous and non autonomous nonlinear circuits. It works in the time domain and is developed starting from differential boundary value problems. It does not require a uniform time point mesh and allows an accurate simulation of spikes into solution waveforms. The mesh placement is based on a new error evaluation. Simulation results, obtained from some circuit benchmarks, are presented

Keywords

boundary-value problems; circuit simulation; nonlinear network analysis; time-domain analysis; autonomous nonlinear circuits; circuit benchmarks; differential boundary value problem; error evaluation; mesh placement; nonautonomous nonlinear circuits; simulation results; solution waveforms; spikes; steady-state time domain simulation; strongly nonlinear circuits; Analytical models; Boundary value problems; Central Processing Unit; Circuit simulation; Differential equations; Electric variables; Nonlinear circuits; Steady-state; Switching circuits; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

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

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7122

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/81.933329

Filename

933329