BEYOND SPICE, A REVIEW OF MODERN ANALOG CIRCUIT SIMULATION TECHNIQUES

Abstract

We present a review of modern analog simulation techniques based on time- and frequency-domain algorithms. For time-domain techniques, important topics such as circuit decomposition, relaxation methods, latency, multirate integration, continuation methods, parallel algorithms, and finite difference time-domain methods are discussed. Frequency-domain simulation techniques included are harmonic balance, harmonic relaxation, harmonic-Newton, spectral balance, methods for quasiperiodic circuits, and device modeling for frequency domain simulators. Also included are examples of modern simulators.