Compact Modeling of Nonlinear Analog Circuits using System Identification via Semi-Definite Programming and Robustness Certification

This paper presents a system identification technique for generating stable compact models of typical analog circuit blocks in radio frequency systems. The identification procedure is based on minimizing the model error over a given training data set subject to an incremental stability constraint, w...

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Main Authors: Bond, Bradley N., Mahmood, Zohaib, Li, Yan, Sredojevic, Ranko, Megretski, Alexandre, Stojanovic, Vladimir Marko, Avniel, Yehuda B., Daniel, Luca
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61672
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5880-3151
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5994-0396
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9088-0205
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Summary:This paper presents a system identification technique for generating stable compact models of typical analog circuit blocks in radio frequency systems. The identification procedure is based on minimizing the model error over a given training data set subject to an incremental stability constraint, which is formulated as a semidefinite optimization problem. Numerical results are presented for several analog circuits, including a distributed power amplifier, as well as a MEM device. It is also shown that our dynamical models can accurately predict important circuit performance metrics, and may thus, be useful for design optimization of analog systems.