An efficient homotopy method for solving transistor circuits

Yasuaki Inoue; Yu Imai; Makoto Ando; Kiyotaka Yamamura

An efficient homotopy method for solving transistor circuits

Yasuaki Inoue, Yu Imai, Makoto Ando, Kiyotaka Yamamura

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Abstract

Finding DC operating points of transistor circuits is a very important and difficult task. To cope with this difficult task, homotopy methods have been studied from various viewpoints. For efficiency of globally convergent homotopy methods, it is important to construct an appropriate homotopy function. In conventional homotopy methods, linear auxiliary functions have been commonly used. In this paper, a homotopy method using some nonlinear auxiliary function is proposed. The proposed method utilizes a nonlinear function closely related to circuit equations to be solved, so that it efficiently finds DC operating points of practical transistor circuits. Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - Conference Proceedings - Hiroshima, Japan Duration: 2004 Jul 25 → 2004 Jul 28

Other

Other	The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - Conference Proceedings
Country	Japan
City	Hiroshima
Period	04/7/25 → 04/7/28

Keywords

Auxiliary function
Circuit simulation
Homotopy function
Homotopy method
Nonlinear function

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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