Envelope analysis of nonlinear electronic circuits based on harmonic balance method

  • Authors:

  • Junji Kawata;Takaaki Kinouchi;Yoshihiro Yamagami;Yoshifumi Nishio;Akio Ushida

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan;Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose here a Spice-oriented envelope analysis based on the HB (harmonic balance) method, where Fourier coefficients are assumed to be slowly varying. The Fourier expansions of nonlinear devices are executed by MATLAB in the symbolic forms. In this time, the nonlinearities need to be approximated by the polynomial functions. The determining equation of the HB method is formulated as Sine–Cosine circuit in the form of schematic diagram using ABMs (analog behavior models) of Spice. Each sub-circuit corresponding to the higher harmonic component is almost the same circuit topology as the original one and has dynamic elements such as capacitors and inductors. The Sine–Cosine circuit can be solved by the transient analysis of Spice. Thus, our method is rather a symbolic approach in the meaning that the HB determining equation is given by the schematic diagram of Spice. Our method can be easily applied to the analysis of middle order of nonlinear communication circuits such as mixers and amplitude modulators and to the analysis of interesting phenomena in the nonlinear oscillations. After many simulation experiments, the results show that our envelope analysis is about 50 times faster than the direct transient analysis. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.