A New Frequency Domain Approach to the Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits

Abstract

Design of Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuits (MMIC's) is currently limited by the lack of suitable analysis and computer aided design tools capable of efficiently handling large-scale analog nonlinear circuits. In this paper we address this problem and present a new multi-frequency technique for the analysis of nonlinear circuits. A novel feature of the method is that nonlinear analysis is performed entirely in the frequency domain using a generalized power series. We show how this technique can be applied to the analysis of MESFET circuits and, as an example, we consider gain saturation in a GaAs MESFET amplifier.