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Abstract | ||
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This paper discusses a self-consistent set of modern computational concepts providing an effective approach to the circuit-level harmonic-balance (HB) simulation of nonlinear microwave systems of complex topology. The system is automatically split into the interconnection of a near-optimal number of nonlinear blocks at run time. The resulting structure is then exploited by the domain-partitioning concept. A block-wise constant spectrum is used rather than a common spectrum by considering for each block only the set of spectral lines that are relevant to its electrical function, which leads to a very significant reduction in the number of problem unknowns. System simulation under digitally modulated RF drive is reduced to a sequence of modified multitone HB analyses that are backward coupled through the envelope dynamics. Besides providing high numerical efficiency, this set of techniques opens the way to an effective co-simulation of RF and baseband transceiver sections. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/TCAD.2010.2092250 | Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
circuit simulation,harmonic analysis,interconnections,microwave circuits,network topology,radio transceivers,RF transceiver,baseband transceiver,block-wise constant spectrum,circuit-level harmonic-balance simulation,circuit-level simulation,complex topology,digitally modulated RF drive,domain-partitioning concept,multitone HB analysis,nonlinear microwave system,system-oriented harmonic-balance algorithm,Domain decomposition,envelope analysis,nonlinear circuits,system analysis and design | Journal | 30 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 0278-0070 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.87 | 5 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rizzoli, V. | 1 | 3 | 0.87 |
| Diego Masotti | 2 | 41 | 9.96 |
| Mastri, F. | 3 | 3 | 0.87 |
| Montanari, E. | 4 | 3 | 0.87 |