Title :
Delay-extraction based sensitivity analysis of multiconductor transmission lines with nonlinear terminations
Author :
Nakhla, Natalie ; Dounavis, Anestis ; Nakhla, Michel ; Achar, Ram
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
An efficient approach is presented for time-domain sensitivity analysis of lossy multiconductor transmission lines with respect to electrical and/or physical parameters. The proposed method employs delay extraction prior to approximating the matrix exponential stamp of the line and guarantees macromodel passivity. A delay-extraction based equivalent circuit for sensitivity analysis is derived in a closed-form, leading to significant computational advantages.
Keywords :
delays; equivalent circuits; multiconductor transmission lines; sensitivity analysis; time-domain analysis; delay-extraction based sensitivity analysis; equivalent circuit; lossy multiconductor transmission lines; macromodel passivity; matrix exponential stamp; matrix rational approximation; nonlinear terminations; passive macromodels; time-domain sensitivity analysis; Delay; Frequency domain analysis; Multiconductor transmission lines; Nonlinear equations; Propagation losses; Sensitivity analysis; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission lines; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2005 IEEE MTT-S International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8845-3
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516955