Numerical analysis of relaxation oscillators based on a differential geometric approach

The difficulties to analyse the state space of a special class of nonlinear electronic circuits are illustrated and a new method to treat these problems is presented. Theoretical aspects of circuit equations from a differential geometric point of view are considered and methods for solving circuit equations by means of algorithms from computational differential geometry are presented. In this paper differential geometric methods were applied to a relaxation oscillator and numerical results were achieved. We describe the behaviour of an emitter-coupled multivibrator with differential algebraic equations and compute its state space numerically.