"On the engineers' new toolbox" or Analog Circuit Design, using Symbolic Analysis, Computer Algebra, and Elementary Network Transformations

In this paper, by way of three examples – a fourth order low pass active RC filter, a rudimentary BJT amplifier, and an LC ladder – we show, how the algebraic capabilities of modern computer algebra systems can, or in the last example, might be brought to use in the task of designing analog circuits. ACM Classification: I.1 Symbolic and algebraic manipulation; J.2 Physical sciences and engineering; G.2.2 Graph theory Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary 94C05; Secondary 94C15, 68W30, 13P10, 05C85