Title
Sensitivity analysis of nonlinear circuits using Volterra series
Abstract
Volterra series (VS) is frequently used in the analysis of mildly nonlinear circuits. In this approach, nonlinear circuit analysis is converted into the analysis of a series of linear circuits. The main benefit of this approach is that linear circuit analysis is well established and direct frequency domain analysis of a nonlinear circuit becomes possible. In this paper, we present for the first time the sensitivity analysis of mildly nonlinear circuits in the frequency domain as an extension of the VS approach. Sensitivity analysis is useful in comparing the quality of two different designs and in gradient based optimization methods. One example circuit is analyzed and the sensitivity of the output to circuit parameters is given
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693763
ISCAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonlinear network analysis,frequency domain analaysis,frequency-domain analysis,linear circuits series,linear circuit analysis,gradient methods,nonlinear circuits,volterra series,sensitivity analysis,equivalent circuits,frequency domain analysis,circuit analysis,sensitivity,linear circuits,frequency domain
Frequency domain,Nonlinear system,Computer science,Control theory,Electronic engineering,Volterra series,Network analysis,Harmonic balance,Split-step method,Linear circuit,Equivalent circuit
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0271-4302
0-7803-9389-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guoji Zhu110.77
Ajoy Opal2125.37