TY - CHAP EP - 135 UR - http://eprints.imtlucca.it/570/ T2 - Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems : proceedings of the IEEE workshop PB - World Scientific Publishing ED - Setti, Gianluca ED - Rovatti, Riccardo ED - Mazzini, Gianluca A1 - Bemporad, Alberto A1 - Giovanardi, L. A1 - Torrisi, Fabio Danilo CY - Singapore TI - Robust simulation of nonlinear electronic circuits Y1 - 2000/// N2 - 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. ID - eprints570 SP - 131 SN - 9789810243418 AV - none ER -