Title :
Nonmonotone norm-reduction method for circuit simulation
Author_Institution :
Circuit Theor. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
fDate :
10/24/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A nonmonotone norm-reduction method for aiding the convergence of Newton-Raphson iteration is presented. The simulation results with some benchmark circuits show that a nonmonotone norm-reduction method may reduce the number of line searches during the iteration.
Keywords :
Jacobian matrices; Newton-Raphson method; circuit simulation; convergence of numerical methods; interpolation; nonlinear network analysis; transient analysis; DC analysis; Jacobian matrix; Newton-Raphson iteration; benchmark circuits; circuit simulation; convergence; nonlinear circuit equations; nonmonotone norm-reduction method; reduced number of line searches; three-point parabolic method; transient analysis;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020912
