Simulation of high-Q oscillators

Author

Gourary, M. ; Ulyanov, S. ; Zharov, M. ; Rusakov, S. ; Gullapalli, K.K. ; Mulvaney, B.J.

Author_Institution

NIISAPRAN, Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

fYear

1998

fDate

8-12 Nov. 1998

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

169

Abstract

We present a new technique, based on a continuation method, for oscillator analysis using harmonic balance. With the use of Krylov subspace iterative linear solvers, harmonic balance has become a very powerful method for the analysis of general nonlinear circuits in the frequency domain. However, application of the harmonic balance method to the oscillator problem has been difficult due to the very small region of convergence. The main contribution of the paper is a robust and efficient continuation method that overcomes this problem.

Keywords

circuit simulation; iterative methods; linear algebra; oscillators; Krylov subspace iterative linear solvers; continuation method; frequency domain; general nonlinear circuits; harmonic balance; high-Q oscillator simulation; oscillator analysis; oscillator problem; Circuit simulation; Finite wordlength effects; Frequency; Harmonic analysis; Iterative methods; Nonlinear circuits; Nonlinear equations; Oscillators; Robustness; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Design, 1998. ICCAD 98. Digest of Technical Papers. 1998 IEEE/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-58113-008-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAD.1998.144261

Filename

742867