ENSC 895 SPECIAL TOPIC: THEORY, ANALYSIS, AND SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR CIRCUITS

Fall 2007
ENSC 895: SPECIAL TOPICS: THEORY, ANALYSIS, AND SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR CIRCUITS

(3-0-0)
The first lecture will be held on Tuesday, September 4, 2007.

TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

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Course description:

The aim of the course is to provide insights and understanding of complex static and dynamic behavior of circuits consisting or bipolar and MOS transistors. Topics will include: global properties of electronic components, properties of nonlinear circuit equations, existence and uniqueness of dc operating points, stability of operating points and the occurrence of bistability, methods for computing solutions to dc, ac, and transient circuit equations, homotopy methods for finding such solutions and their software implementations. Emphasizes will be given to the relationship of circuit theory to circuit design and its usefulness in practical applications. Course may be repeated for credit.

This is a research oriented graduate course. Students will be introduced to various theoretical approaches and numerical methods for analyzing nonlinear electronic circuits. Software tools such as SPICE and MATLAB will be used for circuit simulations.

This course is cross listed with ENSC 460.

Pre-requisites: An undergraduate course in circuit theory and a first course in linear algebra.

TOPICS:

Theory of equations describing nonlinear circuits and systems

Properties of device models

Properties of circuit equations

Stability of dc operating points

Numerical solution of circuit equations

Algorithms for solving nonlinear algebraic equations

Homotopy methods

Implementation in CAD tools

Chaos and bifurcation

ASSIGNMENTS:
Posted weekly on Thursday. Due by the midnight (11:59 PM + 1 minute) on the date specified on the individual assignment (with some exceptions).

Assignment #11

EXAMS:
Two Quizzes:

1. Thursday, October 4, 2007

2. Thursday, November 1, 2007

PROJECT REPORTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND DEMOS:

Web page describing your project and five references are due on Oct. 28, 2007 (midnight).

Final written report (electronic version, hard copy, and Web pages) are due on Dec. 2, 2007 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute). (Please note that there is an after-hours drop-off box at the entrance door of the ENSC main office.)
The final project grading policy
The final project grading form (presentation)
The final project grading form (report)

GRADING:
Class participation 5%, homework assignments 10%, class presentations 10%, final project 45%, Midterm 1 15%, Midterm 2 15%. (Note: no final exam.)

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TEXTBOOKS:

Recommended reading:

A. N. Willson, Jr., Editor, Nonlinear Networks. New York: IEEE Press, 1975.

M. Hasler and J. Neirynck, Nonlinear Circuits. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1986.

L. O. Chua, C. A. Desoer and E. S. Kuh, Linear and Nonlinear Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1987.

N. Balabanian and T. A. Bickart, Electrical Network Theory. Krieger, 1983.

I. Getreu, Modeling the Bipolar Transistor. Beaverton, OR: Tektronix, 1976, pp. 9-23.

Other related sources:

A. N. Willson, Jr., ``Some aspects of the theory of nonlinear networks,'' Proc. IEEE, vol. 61, pp. 1092-1113, Aug. 1973.

Lj. Trajkovic and A. N. Willson, Jr., ``Theory of dc operating points of transistor networks,'' Intern. Journ. Electronics and Comm., vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 228-241, July 1992.

Various journal and conference research papers related to the area of nonlinear circuits and systems:
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I and Part II)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- IEEE ISCAS conference proceedings.

Bibliography (bib.pdf file).

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SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
T/R 19:00 - 20:20 in AQ 4150.
Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

Projects:
ASB 9884 and ASB 10803 (open labs).

PROFESSOR: