Simulation of Microwave and Millimeter-wave Oscillators, Present Capability and Future Directions

The current state-of-the art of oscillator simulation techniques is presented. Candidate approaches for the next genertion of oscillator simulation techniques are reviewed. The method is presented which uses an efficient and robust convolution-based procedure to integrate frequency-domain modeling of a distributed linear network in transient simulation. The impulse response of the entire linear distributed network is obtained and the algorithm presented herein ensures that aliasing effects are minimized by introducing a procedure that ensures that the interconnect network response is both time-limited and band-limited. In particular, artificial filtering to bandlimit the response is not required.