An effective method to find all solutions of piecewise-linear circuits by analyzing piecewise-linear equations step by step

Author

Mizutani, Hikaru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shonan Inst. of Technol., Fujisawa, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

18-21 Nov 1996

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Recently, a lot of time has been required to analyze large VLSI transistor circuits and a faster algorithm was necessary. This paper describes a new system which obtains all solutions of a nonlinear circuit described by a piecewise linear function. It is expected that all solutions can be obtained in a practical time using the new method. In this paper, nonlinear circuits including Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) circuits are discussed, however, this method may be applied to any kind of nonlinear circuit described by a piecewise-linear function

Keywords

VLSI; circuit analysis computing; nonlinear network analysis; piecewise-linear techniques; BJT circuits; Ebers-Moll model; bipolar junction transistor circuits; large VLSI transistor circuits; nonlinear circuits; piecewise linear function; piecewise-linear circuits; piecewise-linear equations; step by step analysis; Algorithm design and analysis; Circuit analysis; Circuit testing; Diodes; Ear; Linear circuits; Nonlinear equations; Piecewise linear techniques; Very large scale integration; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1996., IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3702-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCAS.1996.569221

Filename

569221