Systematic development of nonlinear analog circuit macromodels through successive operator composition and nonlinear model decoupling

  • Authors:
  • Ying Wei;Alex Doboli

  • Affiliations:
  • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a systematic methodology for developing structural nonlinear macromodels for analog circuits. The methodology includes two steps: first, a nonlinear system is represented as a system with nonlinear inputs and linearly coupled blocks. Then, the linear couplings are removed. The methodology also uses a novel description of circuit nonlinearities as a successive composition of three operators. The generated nonlinear models are scalable, tunable according to the required accuracy, and offer insight into the circuit operation.