Abstract

Behavioural simulation of complex, inherently highly nonlinear mixed-signal systems is often the only effective way to evaluate possible system performance before fabrication and characterization of the hardware system. Transistor-level, SPICE, simulations of these systems are often practically impossible because of the enormous computational time required due to the many interactions of all the nonlinearities and the widely separated system time constants. New behavioural models for useful electronic functions have been developed as straightforward mathematical descriptions that can be evaluated by general purpose mathematical programs and system simulators. The models described below are targeted for SIMULINK/MATLAB and use standard MATLAB expressions and linked C and FORTRAN codes. In some situations, behavioural model based simulations are over 100 times faster than SPICE …

Date

1996

Authors

Wayne Current, Jim Parker, Wes Hardaker

Journal

International journal of electronics

Volume

80

Issue

1

Pages

63-76

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group