Symbolic Analysis of Nonlinear Analog Circuits

A new method is presented to model symbolically strongly nonlinear circuits, characterized by Piece-Wise Linear (PWL) functions. The method follows the idea of Bokhoven and Leenaerts, and formulates the problem as a linear complementarity problem (LCP). A new graph representation, called complementarity decision diagram, is introduced to represent the explicit LCP solutions. Orders of magnitude improvements in computational efficiency and memory usage have been obtained.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Alicia Manthe, Zhao Li, C.-J. Richard Shi, Kartikeya Mayaram
• Keywords: Complementarity Decision Diagram, DATE 2003, Explicit Lcp Solutions, Hardware, Linear Complementarity Problem