Transient analysis of nonlinear dynamic circuits using a numerical‐integration method

Purpose – Developing an efficient second‐order integration method of transient analysis of nonlinear dynamic circuits which overcomes the main drawback of the trapezoidal rule.Design/methodology/approach – Dynamic circuits including transistors and operational amplifiers are considered. A new family of two‐step, second‐order numerical integration algorithms has been developed using a polynomial approximation.Findings – The algorithms have been worked out which are implicit, A‐stable and they depend on a parameter which is allowed to be changed during the computation process according to a proposed strategy. Also the variable step‐size formula has been derived enabling us to eliminate a restarting procedure. The method has been implemented and tested using several representative circuits. It has been compared, both theoretically and via numerical examples, with the alternative well known algorithms: the trapezoidal rule and the backward differentiation formula of order two.Research limitation/implications ...