Frequency domain techniques for simulation of oscillators

This paper is aimed to characterize the state-of-the-art in the area of oscillator simulation. The development of robust computational schemes for oscillator analysis is a key problem of RF simulation. The main problems are considered below from the point of view of implementation of numerical procedures in circuit simulators.

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