While fast timing analysis methods, such as asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE), have been well established for linear circuits, the timing analysis for non-linear circuits, which are dominant in digital CMOS circuits, is usually performed by a SPICE like, time domain integration based approach, involving expensive Newton Raphson iterations at numerous time steps. In this paper, we propose a new technique that leads to the transient solution of charge/discharge paths with a complexity equivalent to only K DC operating point calculations, where K is the number of transistors along the path. This is accomplished by approximating each nodal voltage as a piecewise quadratic waveform, whose characteristics can be determined by matching the charge/discharge