Simulating multi-one free-running oscillators with optimal sweep following
The paper deals with the issue of widely separated time scales, that becomes increasingly common in today's electronic circuits, especially oscillators. Using traditional methods to compute the transient response requires a long computation time proportional to the order of separation between the time constants. The paper is structured in four sections. In the first section, the author states the problem he tries to solve. He reviews the existing classes of methods used to address this problem: 1. Methods that partition the circuit into a fast and a slow part. 2. Methods that simulate the circuit as a whole, but attempt to split the low-frequency behavior from the high-frequency behavior, such as: envelope-following techniques and Multi-rate Partial Differential Equation (MPDE) techniques. The present paper falls in the second category. The method proposed, called Optimal Sweep Following, has the novelty that it can handle autonomous circuits in which frequency modulation (FM) is present. The author claims that a new feature of the method is that the frequency of the fast-varying signal does not have to be provided a priori, being determined by the method itself. Thus, the numerical algorithm presented can detect and deal with changes in the period of the fast-varying signal. As a consequence, the method is suitable for the simulation of FM circuits. Section two entitled Efficient representations of solutions with widely-varying time-scales, introduces the notion of a sweep and shows how a sweep can be represented. Essentially, a solution of a Differential-Algebraic Equation that changes at two different time scales is represented by a so-called telephone cord. The main idea of the Sweep Following method is not to simulate the telephone-cord, but rather the tube that is spanned by the cord and the speed of rotation of the cord around the tube. Section three outlines the method. Section four presents a test problem that is solved using the presented method. The test problem could not be solved by the previous methods. The test problem is a frequency modulated LC oscillator. The author points out that the method has not been tested so far on realistic circuits. He also did not make a comparison between the simulation time of the presented method and the traditional transient analysis, although he points out that the size steps in one direction of the results could be taken larger than in other methods. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1046.78001].
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