%0 Book Section
%A Bemporad, Alberto
%A Giovanardi, L.
%A Torrisi, Fabio Danilo
%B Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems : proceedings of the IEEE workshop
%C Singapore
%D 2000
%E Setti, Gianluca
%E Rovatti, Riccardo
%E Mazzini, Gianluca
%F eprints:570
%I World Scientific Publishing
%P 131-135
%T Robust simulation of nonlinear electronic circuits
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/570/
%X This paper proposes robust simulation of piecewise linear systems as a tool for the analysis of nonlinear electronic circuits. Rather than computing the evolution of a single trajectory, robust simulation computes the evolution from a set of initial conditions in the state space, for all forcing input signals within a given class. We describe here a tool to perform this analysis using mathematical programming. Among various applications, the tool allows to estimate the domain of attraction of equilibria, and to  determine if some design speci£cations — expressed  themselves in terms of reachability of subsets of the  state-space — are met. A test of the tool on Chua’s  circuit is presented.