Advanced methods for equivalence checking of analog circuits with strong nonlinearities

摘要

In this contribution two extensions for an analog equivalence checking method are proposed, enabling the checking of strongly nonlinear circuits with floating nodes such as digital library cells. Therefore, a structural recognition and mapping of eigenvalues, representing the dynamics, to circuit elements via circuit variables is presented. Additionally, the introduction of reachability analysis is significantly restricting the investigated state space to the relevant parts, avoiding false negatives. The newly introduced methods are compared to existing ones by application to industrial examples.