• DocumentCode
    810435
  • Title

    General-purpose harmonic balance analysis of nonlinear microwave circuits under multitone excitation

  • Author

    Rizzoli, Vittorio ; Cecchetti, Claudio ; Lipparini, Alessandro ; Mastri, Franco

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Bologna Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1988
  • Firstpage
    1650
  • Lastpage
    1660
  • Abstract
    A powerful software tools for the simulation of nonlinear microwave circuits under single- or multiple-frequency excitation is described. The program operates in a truly general-purpose fashion, both circuit topology and active-device equivalent circuits being arbitrarily established by the user at the data entry level. Built-in facilities based on the multidimensional Fourier transform allow a straightforward and unrestricted treatment of mixer and intermodulation problems. The capabilities of the program are illustrated by a number of practical examples.<>
  • Keywords
    S-parameters; circuit analysis computing; equivalent circuits; intermodulation; microwave circuits; network topology; nonlinear network analysis; active-device equivalent circuits; circuit topology; general purpose program; harmonic balance analysis; intermodulation problems; mixer problems; multidimensional Fourier transform; multiple-frequency excitation; multitone excitation; nonlinear microwave circuits; simulation; single-frequency excitation; software tools; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Harmonic analysis; Microwave circuits; Microwave devices; Multidimensional systems; Nonlinear circuits; Power system harmonics; Software tools;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9480
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/22.17396
  • Filename
    17396