Improved harmonic balance implementation of Floquet analysis for nonlinear circuit simulation

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 357-363

  Traversa, Fabio L ^a   Bonani, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Floquet theory; Frequency domain analysis; Harmonic balance

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; AUTONOMOUS CIRCUIT; COMPUTATION TIME; EIGENVALUES; FLOQUET; FLOQUET ANALYSIS; FLOQUET THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HARMONIC BALANCE; HARMONIC BALANCE TECHNIQUES; NOISE PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT SIMULATION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; TIME-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION;

EID: 84858704539     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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