%I World Scientific Publishing
%T Robust simulation of nonlinear electronic circuits
%P 131-135
%C Singapore
%B Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems : proceedings of the IEEE workshop
%J Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems
%A Alberto Bemporad
%A L. Giovanardi
%A Fabio Danilo Torrisi
%E Gianluca Setti
%E Riccardo Rovatti
%E Gianluca Mazzini
%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.
%D 2000
%L eprints570