METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CIRCUIT SIMULATION

• US 20180165389A1
• Filed: 03/09/2016
• Published: 06/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tian Yu
• Original Assignee: Tian Yu
• Inventors: Tian, Yu
• Application Number:
  US15/736,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20180165389A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2119/16 Equivalence checking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/30 Circuit design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/3308 using simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/367 Design verification, e.g. using simulation, simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis [SPICE], direct methods or relaxation methods

Abstract

Method and apparatus for circuit simulation, comprising: partitioning circuit into a first simulation circuit and a second simulation circuit; generating equivalent circuit of first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point based on port current/port voltage of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point, a pre-obtained port voltage of the first simulation circuit under port open-circuit condition/port current of the first simulation circuit under port short-circuit condition, and a pre-obtained impulse-response of the first simulation circuit; simulating circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit and the second simulation circuit based on a preset algorithm to obtain unknowns in the second simulation circuit; and obtaining unknowns in the first simulation circuit based on port current/port voltage. Comparing with prior art, this invention reduces circuit scale by equivalencing linear portion of circuit, namely, the first simulation circuit. Thereby computation amount in simulation process is reduced to meet requirements for real-time simulation.

Claims

1. A method for circuit simulation, comprising:

partitioning circuit into a first simulation circuit and a second simulation circuit, which are connected through at least one port, wherein circuit elements in the first simulation circuit are linear-time-invariant;

in each simulation time-step, comprising the steps of;

generating an equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port current of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point;

simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit and the second simulation circuit, based on a preset simulation algorithm, to obtain unknowns of the second simulation circuit as well as port current at present simulation time-point;

or,

generating an equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port voltage of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point;

simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit and the second simulation circuit, based on a preset simulation algorithm, to obtain unknowns of the second simulation circuit as well as port voltage at present simulation time-point.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein if the first simulation circuit contains unknowns, the method further comprising:

calculating unknowns of the first simulation circuit based on port current or port voltage.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein generating an equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port current of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point, comprising:

calculating equivalent open-circuit voltage and equivalent resistance of the equivalent circuit;

wherein the equivalent open-circuit voltage is;

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein generating an equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port voltage of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point, comprising:

calculating equivalent short-circuit current and equivalent conductance of the equivalent circuit;

wherein the equivalent short-circuit current is;

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit and the second simulation circuit, based on a preset simulation algorithm, comprising:

simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit and the second simulation circuit, using difference equation method or state variable method.

6. The method as described in claim 2, wherein calculating unknowns of the first simulation circuit based on port current, comprising:

calculating unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit from equation;

7. The method as described in claim 2, wherein calculating unknowns of the first simulation circuit based on port voltage, comprising:

calculating unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit from equation

8. The method as described in claim 3, wherein calculating equivalent open-circuit voltage and equivalent resistance of the equivalent circuit, comprising:

pre-calculating port voltage of the first simulation circuit under port open-circuit condition and the impulse-response of port voltage of the first simulation circuit to port current, using frequency-domain method or time-domain method.

9. The method as described in claim 4, wherein calculating equivalent short-circuit current and equivalent conductance of the equivalent circuit, comprising:

pre-calculating port current of the first simulation circuit under port short-circuit condition and the impulse-response of port current of the first simulation circuit to port voltage, using frequency-domain method or time-domain method.

10. The method as described in claim 6, wherein calculating unknowns of the first simulation circuit based on port current, comprising:

pre-calculating unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit under port open-circuit condition and the impulse-response of unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit to port current, and/or unknown branch current of the first simulation circuit under port open-circuit condition and the impulse-response of unknown branch current of the first simulation circuit to port current, using frequency-domain method or time-domain method.

11. The method as described in claim 7, wherein calculating unknowns of the first simulation circuit based on port voltage, comprising:

pre-calculating unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit under port short-circuit condition and the impulse-response of unknown node voltage of the first simulation circuit to port voltage, and/or unknown branch current of the first simulation circuit under port short-circuit condition and the impulse-response of unknown branch current of the first simulation circuit to port voltage, using frequency-domain method or time-domain method.

12. A circuit simulation apparatus, comprising:

a circuit partitioning unit, which is used for partitioning circuit into a first simulation circuit and a second simulation circuit, which are connected through at least one port, wherein circuit elements in the first simulation circuit are linear-time-invariant;

a first equivalent circuit generating unit, which is used for generating equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port current of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point;

a first simulation unit, which is used for simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit generated by the first equivalent circuit generating unit and the second simulation circuit, to obtain unknowns of the second simulation circuit, as well as the port current of present simulation time-point, based on a preset algorithm;

a second equivalent circuit generating unit, which is used for generating equivalent circuit of the first simulation circuit at present simulation time-point, based on port voltage of simulation time-points prior to present simulation time-point;

a second simulation unit, which is used for simulating the circuit consisting of the equivalent circuit generated by the second equivalent circuit generating unit and the second simulation circuit, to obtain unknowns of the second simulation circuit, as well as the port voltage of present simulation time-point, based on a preset algorithm.