AWEsim: a program for the efficient analysis of linear(ized) circuits

Author

Huang, Xiaoli ; Raghavan, Vivek ; Rohrer, Ronald A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

11-15 Nov. 1990

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

537

Abstract

Asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) is a novel method to analyze linear(ized) circuits. It uses a form of Pade approximation rather than numerical integration to approximate the behavior of linear(ized) circuits in either the time or the frequency domain. Improvements are presented to the theory of AWE to avoid some inherent limitations of Pade approximation. A discussion is presented of the practical aspects that have arisen in the attempt to use AWE in a simulation program called AWEsim. Results are also presented of AWEsim that clearly demonstrate the advantage of AWE over traditional approaches to circuit simulation.<>

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; function approximation; linear network analysis; AWE; Pade approximation; asymptotic waveform evaluation; linear circuits; linearised circuits; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency estimation; Integrated circuit interconnections; Linear circuits; Polynomials; Switching circuits; Transient analysis; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Design, 1990. ICCAD-90. Digest of Technical Papers., 1990 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2055-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAD.1990.129974

Filename

129974