Stable reduced models for nonlinear descriptor systems through piecewise-linear approximation and projection

  • Authors:
  • Bradley N. Bond;Luca Daniel

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents theoretical and practical results concerning the stability of piecewise-linear (PWL) reduced models for the purposes of analog macromodeling. Results include proofs of input-output (I/O) stability for PWL approximations to certain classes of nonlinear descriptor systems, along with projection techniques that are guaranteed to preserve I/O stability in reduced-order PWL models. We also derive a new PWL formulation and introduce a new nonlinear projection, allowing us to extend our stability results to a broader class of nonlinear systems described by models containing nonlinear descriptor functions. Lastly, we present algorithms to compute efficiently the required stabilizing nonlinear left-projection matrix operators.