A versatile time-domain approach to simulate oscillators in RF circuits

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Maffezzoni

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a versatile simulation technique for the time-domain analysis of RF oscillators. The method blends the superior accuracy and robustness of implicit Runge-Kutta integration formulas with the high efficiency of a particular envelope-following technique. The method can be applied to study both transient and steady-state responses of autonomous and nonautonomous circuits and can also be applied to the case of harsh nonlinear oscillator topologies.