Intermodulation analysis of mixer circuits based on frequency domain relaxation method

Author

Ushida, Akio ; Yamagami, Yoshihiro ; Nishio, Yoshifumi ; Takahashi, Masayuki ; Ogawa, Kimihiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokushima Univ., Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

12

Abstract

There are many communication circuits driven by multi-tone signals such as modulators and mixers. If the output frequency components are largely different to each other, the brute force numerical method will take an enormous computation time to calculate the steady-state responses, because the total period becomes very long. In this paper, we show a SPICE oriented algorithm based on the frequency domain relaxation method which can be efficiently applied to relatively large scale ICs

Keywords

SPICE; circuit simulation; frequency-domain analysis; intermodulation; mixers (circuits); SPICE oriented analysis; brute force numerical method; computation time; frequency domain relaxation method; intermodulation analysis; large scale ICs; mixer circuits; multi-tone signals; output frequency components; steady-state responses; total period; Circuit analysis; Design automation; Design engineering; Frequency domain analysis; Large scale integration; Large-scale systems; Nonlinear circuits; Relaxation methods; SPICE; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits, 1999. Proceedings of the IEEE 1999

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5443-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1999.777233

Filename

777233