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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 12, December 2000

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A Circuit Reduction Technique for Finding the Steady-State Solution of Nonlinear Circuits

Emad Gad, Student Member, IEEE Roni Khazaka, Student Member, IEEE Michel S. Nakhla, Fellow, IEEE and Richard Griffith Student Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

Computing the steady-state response of large nonlinear circuits is becoming a key simulation requirement due to the rapid market growth of RF silicon integrated circuits. In this paper, we describe a nonlinear circuit reduction algorithm for finding the steady-state response. The proposed algorithm uses a congruent transformation-based technique to reduce the harmonic-balance equations into a much smaller set of equations. The main feature of the reduced circuit is that it shares with the original one a certain number of the derivatives with respect to the RF input power. Steady-state analysis is then done on the reduced circuit instead of the original circuit.

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