111 results about "Nonlinear circuits" patented technology

The invention relates to a method and circuit for linearizing amplifiers and other nonlinear circuits for multi-carrier signals. An output signal from the amplifier is sampled, and a correlation matrix of size N×N is computed from the sampled signal, wherein N exceeds the number of multiplexed carriers in the signal. A signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) is then estimated based on a ratio of one or more largest to one or more smallest eigenvalues of the correlation matrix, and the signal into the amplifier is pre-distorted so as to maximize the SDR.

A calibration unit and technique for calibrating A/D systems (e.g., data acquisition devices) using a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit to reduce nonlinearity. The calibration unit may be coupled to an analog-to-digital module (ADM) of the A/D system. The PWM circuit may generate a calibration signal with intentional ripple, which may exercise a region of a transfer curve of the ADM to reduce local nonlinearities in measurements associated with the calibration of the system. Pulse trains of varying frequency and duty cycle may be generated to sweep the PWM circuit through an ADM range and to calculate an ADM linearity correction function, which may be used to perform gain and offset correction with respect to a best-fit line through an ADM transfer curve to reduce large signal nonlinearities. The PWM circuit may include a resistor divider circuit including a plurality of taps to improve the ability to calibrate small input ranges.

The invention discloses a modelling method for a surface potential basis intensive model of an III-V group HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistor). The method comprises the following steps of firstly, establishing an intrinsic structure model and an extrinsic structure model of the III-V group HEMT, combining a physical structure and a behavior mechanism of a device to construct a topological structure, and then embedding the established models into a commercial EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool; secondly, carrying out on-wafer testing on an actual depletion device to obtain various performance test data of the device; and lastly, verifying the intensive model. The model solves the problems that the existing current and charge equations of the device cannot integrate, the segment points are discontinuous and the equations cannot be used for nonlinear circuit simulation; through a method for solving a surface potential source equation to deduce model current and charge/capacitance equations, a physical problem for quantum effect processing and a numerical algorithm problem caused by simultaneous self-consistent solution of a classic carrier transport equation and a new effect in the existing physical model are solved; and furthermore, a computational formula for volume charge density is deducted again, so that a problem of difficulty in gluing in a charge model is solved.

Disclosed is an MCSKPCA based neural network fault diagnosis method for analog circuits, comprising acquiring the output voltage signal of an analog circuit to be diagnosed; performing wavelet transformation on the acquired output voltage signal; calculating the energy eigenvalues of the wavelet coefficients of the output voltage signal, obtained through the wavelet transformation; performing MCSKPCA feature extraction and dimensionality reduction on the energy eigenvalues, and obtaining an optical eigenvector; and sending the optical eigenvector to a BP neural network separator, and outputting a fault diagnosis result by the BP neural network separator. The method can be used for not only diagnosis of linear or nonlinear circuits and systems thereof, but also diagnosis of hard fault and soft fault in the linear or nonlinear circuits.

The invention discloses a noninductive Cai's circuit, comprising three anti-phase integrators, an anti-phase limiting nonlinear circuit, an anti-phase amplifier and an anti-phase adder. An output terminal X of a first anti-phase integrator is respectively connected with one input terminal itself, an input terminal of the anti-phase limiting nonlinear circuit and an input terminal of the anti-phase adder; an output terminal Y of a second anti-phase integrator is respectively connected with one input terminal itself, an input terminal of a third anti-phase integrator and the input terminal of the anti-phase amplifier; an output terminal Z of a third anti-phase integrator is connected with one input terminal of the anti-phase adder, and the output terminal of the anti-phase limiting nonlinear circuit is connected with one input terminal of the first anti-phase integrator, and the output terminal of the anti-phase amplifier is connected with one input terminal of the first anti-phase integrator, and the output terminal of the anti-phase adder is connected with one input terminal of the second anti-phase integrator. The noninductive Cai's circuit has simple structure, high accuracy and better stability, and can provide waveforms corresponding to each algebraic item of the mathematic expression of the Cai's circuit.

A push-push high frequency oscillator comprises a pair of amplifiers for oscillation, a loop-shaped microstrip line for connecting inputs of the pair of amplifiers to each other and connecting outputs of the pair of amplifiers to each other, a slot line disposed between the inputs and the outputs of the pair of amplifiers for electromagnetically coupling with the microstrip line, a nonlinear circuit for enhancing the level of harmonic components in an applied synchronization signal, a coupler circuit for electromagnetically coupling the output of the nonlinear circuit to the microstrip line, and a filter circuit disposed at the output of the nonlinear circuit. The filter circuit filters harmonic components of the synchronization signal such that the two oscillation systems are injected with the same frequency components as the fundamental wave or frequency components twice as high as the fundamental wave to increase frequency stability.

A method for reducing a transistor circuit netlist for clock network timing verification is provided. Further, a simulation tool that reduces a transistor circuit netlist such that nonlinear circuit properties are preserved is provided. Further, a computer system that improves clock network performance by simulating a netlist that is generated from a reduced transistor circuit netlist is provided.

An apparatus for generating harmonics in an audio signal with an adder stage, which can add signals from a first signal line and a second signal line, such that an audio signal with harmonics can be tested at the output of the adder stage and such that a filter device and a nonlinear circuit device are situated in the second signal line, characterized in that a corner frequency of the filter device is adjustable

The invention discloses a circuit fault diagnosis method based on a neural network, wherein current excitation or voltage excitation is exerted on a to-be-tested circuit; the voltage of a testable junction is measured and is compared with that of a normal condition to obtain voltage increment; according to the Kirchhoff theorem of circuit, the relation equation of circuit device parameters and excitation and response is obtained; then, element parameter increment is taken as an optimization variable; the relation equation is solved through adopting a constraint nonlinearity noncontinuous optimization method to obtain element parameter increment; finally, the increment is compared with a normal parameter to determine a fault element. The circuit fault diagnosis method has the characteristics of strong anti-interference capability, fast location and high accuracy, etc.; moreover, the method has wide application range and is suitable for the test and the diagnosis of a linear circuit, a nonlinear circuit and a mixed signal circuit.

The invention belongs to the field of design of an integrated circuit and relates to a nonlinear circuit time domain model reduction method and a nonlinear circuit time domain model reduction device. The method comprises the following steps of: forming a track in a state space through a 'training signal', and selecting an expansion point on the track to approach a nonlinear circuit through a segmented linear method; and obtaining a final reduction model through a time domain model reduction method based on wavelet collocation. The device comprises an input unit, an output unit, a program storage unit, an external bus, a memory, a storage management unit, an input/output bridging unit, a system bus and a processor. A nonlinear system is directly subjected to model reduction in a time domain, the time domain reduction accuracy of the nonlinear system can be guaranteed, and a time domain error can be controlled; therefore, an accurate and compact reduction model can be acquired, and the simulation accuracy and efficiency are improved.

A circuit on an integrated circuit is made from a design that is verified using a design tool. The design tool takes a model of the circuit and generates equations with respect to nodes on the circuit. The time consuming task of completely determining the voltage at each node is performed for a predetermined input. To determine the node voltages for other signals, the first order transfer function of the equations is taken and then calculated for the predetermined input. A first order estimate of the node voltages is achieved using this first order transfer function and the node voltages determined from the predetermined input. A second order estimate is achieved using the first order transfer function and the first order estimate. A third order estimate is achieved using the first order transfer function and the second order estimate. The circuit design is verified for manufacturabiltity then manufactured.

A pertubative approach based on the Born approximation resolves weakly nonlinear circuit models without requiring explicit high-order device derivatives. Convergence properties and the relation to Volterra series are discussed. According to the disclosed methods, second and third order intermodulation products (IM2, IM3) and intercept points (IP2, IP3) can be calculated by second and third order Born approximations under weakly nonlinear conditions. A diagrammatic representation of nonlinear interactions is presented. Using this diagrammatic technique, both Volterra series and Born approximations can be constructed in a systematic way. The method is generalized to calculate other high-order nonlinear effects such as IMn (nth order intermodulation product) and IPn (nth order intermodulation intercept point). In general, the equations are developed in harmonic form and can be implemented in both time and frequency domains for analog and RF circuits.

The invention relates to a flyback converter overcurrent protection achieving method for a nonlinear circuit. A flyback converter is arranged and comprises an input rectifier bridge, an input capacitor, a transformer, a power switch, an output diode, an output capacitor and a load circuit. A control circuit is arranged and electrically connected with the flyback converter. The control circuit comprises a sampling resistor, an overcurrent comparator, a nonlinear overcurrent reference circuit, an RS trigger and a driver, wherein the nonlinear overcurrent reference circuit provides overcurrent protection reference voltage, and the overcurrent protection reference voltage is a voltage reference nonlinearly varying with a duty ratio of the transformer.

The invention discloses a peak value and over-peak moment tracking detection circuit which comprises a voltage comparator, a noninverting amplifier, a sampling retention circuit and a driving circuit, wherein the sampling retention circuit comprises a resistor, a voltage follower, a controlled switch and a retention circuit; the voltage follower follows voltage of the retention circuit, namely output voltage of the voltage follower is equal to that of the retention circuit; the voltage comparator compares an output voltage signal of the noninverting amplifier with a voltage signal Uin input by a tracking detection circuit; a comparison result is output through the voltage comparator to control the driving circuit; the driving circuit controls turning on or turning off of the controlled switch. The circuit directly detects and compares a voltage value of the voltage signal Uin instead of processing a waveform of the voltage signal Uin, so that the circuit is in no relation to the waveform of the voltage signal Uin; therefore, introduction of a nonlinear circuit such as a differential circuit is avoided, and the precision and the reliability of the tracking detection circuit are improved.

The invention provides a producing device of multi-scroll chaotic signals, which can produce multi-scroll chaotic signals without nonlinear circuit. The device comprises a chaotic producing equation storage module, a numerical solution module, a simulation converting module and a D/A converting module, wherein one or a plurality of differential equations are stored in the chaotic producing equation storage module; the numerical solution module is used for performing numerical solution on the differential equation capable of producing the multi-scroll chaotic signals; the simulation converting module is used for converting the numerical value obtained through the numerical solution module, so as to obtain simulation chaotic signals; and the simulation chaotic signals obtained by the simulation converting module are converted into electrical signals through the D/A converting module. The invention further discloses a method for producing the multi-scroll chaotic signal; the invention ensures that the solving of the differential equation capable of producing the multi-scroll chaotic signal though soft wares is achieved through software and the obtained value is finally converted into the electrical signal, and has the advantages of simple structure and easy implementation.

The invention provides a neural network space mapping modeling method for packaged transistors. Building of accurate packaged transistor models is of vital importance on improving the precision of wireless communication system circuits. The neural network space mapping modeling method aims to overcome the shortcomings of requirements on internal structure information and high computational complexity of existing modeling methods for packaged transistors. The neural network space mapping modeling method for the packaged transistors includes dividing each packaged transistor model into an input packaged circuit module, a nonlinear circuit module and an output packaged circuit module; respectively constructing structures of the input packaged circuit modules, the nonlinear circuit modules and the output packaged circuit modules. The neural network space mapping modeling method has the advantages that characteristics of the packaged transistors can be accurately reflected by trained models, the neural network space mapping modeling method is high in simulation speed, the design cycle can be greatly shortened, and large-scale circuits can be possibly further designed.

A distortion compensation apparatus includes distortion generating means for generating distortions to compensate for a distortion generated in an amplifier 2. The distortion generating means includes a nonlinear circuit 13 having an input/output expansion characteristic as a circuit which generates a distortion of the lowest odd order as a compensation target and also includes a nonlinear circuit 18 having an input/output saturation characteristic as a circuit which generates a distortion of another odd order as a compensation target.

The invention relates to a pseudo transient analysis method of a direct current operating point of a nonlinear circuit and a device. The analysis method comprises the following steps: a PN node of each MOS pipe in the nonlinear circuit is connected with a parallel conductance in parallel, and a bypass conductance and a bypass capacitance are connected between each node of the MOS pipe and the ground; the initial values of the parallel conductance and the bypass conductance are set to be more than a predetermined default value; zero setting is carried out to all independent sources; the values of the independent sources are gradually rose to the original value of the independent sources within a specific multiple time of a time constant formed by the bypass conductance and the bypass capacitance; the iteration is carried out in a manner of gradually reducing the bypass conductance until the bypass conductance is finally and completely eliminated; the iteration is carried out in a manner of gradually reducing the parallel conductance until the parallel conductance is equal to the default value predetermined by the parallel conductance; the transient analysis is continuously carried out, and whether the current of the bypass capacitance is smaller than a given error is checked to judge whether the pseudo transient analysis is finished.

The invention discloses a time-lag neural network hyperchaos circuit which belongs to the field of nonlinear circuits. The circuit comprises an integration circuit, a time lag module and an excitation module, and can generate a chaotic signal under the interference of a pulse signal. The integration circuit consists of an operational amplifier U1, an operational amplifier U2, an operational amplifier U5, an operational amplifier U6, an operational amplifier U3, and an operational amplifier U9. The time lag module comprises a first time lag module HB1 and a second time lag module HB5. The excitation module comprises a first excitation module HB2, a second excitation module HB3, a third excitation module HB4, and a fourth excitation module HB6. Compared with the prior art, the circuit has the improvement that a time-lag hyperchaos neural network phase diagram is represented under different interferences through adjusting a pulse voltage value.