Weakly nonlinear circuit analysis based on fast multidimensional inverse Laplace transform

There have been continuing thrusts in developing efficient modeling techniques for circuit simulation. However, most circuit simulation methods are time-domain solvers. In this paper we propose a frequency-domain simulation method based on Laguerre function expansion. The proposed method handles both linear and nonlinear circuits. The Laguerre method can invert multidimensional Laplace transform efficiently with a high accuracy, which is a key step of the proposed method. Besides, an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique is developed and its parallel implementation is introduced to speed up the computation. Numerical examples show that our proposed method can accurately simulate large circuits while enjoying low computation complexity.

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