Capturing all the DC solutions of the PWL resistive circuits by means of the polyhedral components

Author

Pastore, Stefano ; Premoli, Amedeo

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Inf., Trieste Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1992

fDate

10-13 May 1992

Firstpage

280

Abstract

An algorithm for finding all the DC solutions for piecewise-linear (PWL) resistive circuits is presented. Each PWL characteristic of a circuit is partitioned sequentially into smaller portions, until the single segments are reached. The circuits formed with these portions can be ordered in a genealogical tree, of which the original PWL circuit is the founder, while the terminal nodes represent the linear circuits associated to the linear regions. The analysis of the polyhedral circuits associated with the nodes of the tree yields the solutions for the PWL circuit. An example shows that the efficiency of the algorithm increases when the rank of the nonlinear components arises

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; nonlinear network analysis; piecewise-linear techniques; DC solutions; PWL resistive circuits; piecewise-linear; polyhedral components; terminal nodes; Circuit testing; DC generators; Ear; Equivalent circuits; Linear systems; Partitioning algorithms; Performance evaluation; Piecewise linear techniques; Resistors; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1992. ISCAS '92. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0593-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1992.229959

Filename

229959