Construction of broadband passive macromodels from frequency data for simulation of distributed interconnect networks

This paper discusses a method for the construction of multiport broadband passive macromodels using frequency data obtained from an electromagnetic simulation or measurements. This data could represent the frequency response of a distributed interconnect system. The macromodels are generated using rational functions by solving an eigenvalue problem. For numerical computation, the macromodels are represented as a summation of rational functions consisting of low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, and all-pass filters. The stability and passivity of the macromodels are enforced through constraints on the poles and residues of rational functions. To enable the construction of broadband macromodels, methods based on band division, selector, subband reordering, subband dilation, and pole replacement have been used. Two test cases that describe the performance of the proposed algorithm, and three test cases that are representative of distributed systems have been analyzed to verify the efficiency of the method.

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