Piecewise linear asymptotic waveform evaluation for transient simulation of electronic circuits

Author

Dikmen, C.T. ; Alaybeyi, M.M. ; Topcu, S. ; Atalar, A. ; Sezer, E. ; Tan, M.A. ; Rohrer, R.A.

Author_Institution

Bilkent Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

1991

fDate

11-14 Jun 1991

Firstpage

854

Abstract

A general purpose circuit simulation program, PL-AWE (piecewise linear asymptotic waveform evaluator) is developed especially for the analysis of VLSI circuits. PL-AWE uses the asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) technique, which is a new method to analyze linear(ized) circuits, and piecewise-linear (PL) models to represent nonlinear elements. AWE employs a form of Pade approximation rather than numerical integration to approximate the behavior of linear(ized) circuits in either the time or the frequency domain. The authors discuss the internal workings of the program, and indicate its effectiveness in terms of several illustrative examples

Keywords

VLSI; circuit analysis computing; frequency-domain analysis; piecewise-linear techniques; time-domain analysis; PL-AWE; Pade approximation; VLSI circuits; asymptotic waveform evaluation; circuit simulation program; effectiveness; electronic circuit evaluation; internal workings; piecewise linear asymptotic waveform evaluation; piecewise linear asymptotic waveform evaluator; piecewise linear models; transient simulation; Analytical models; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Electronic circuits; Iterative algorithms; Nonlinear circuits; Nonlinear equations; Piecewise linear approximation; Piecewise linear techniques; Transient analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1991., IEEE International Sympoisum on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0050-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1991.176497

Filename

176497