Node List Tolerance Analysis presents software methods that overcome the many limitations of SPICE WCA using less expensive tools.

Features:

• Provides original circuit analysis methods that overcome SPICE WCA limitations using less expensive software
• Offers concurrent DC, AC, and transient analysis solutions using state space methods
• Includes multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) solutions for both AC and DC circuits
• Demonstrates Mathcad's built-in differential equation solver applied to transient analysis
• Includes a CD-ROM containing Mathcad files for performing the techniques outlined in the book

Contents

Nominal Analysis

• Introduction to Node List Circuit Analysis
• Passive Circuits
• Introduction to Node List Circuit Analysis
• All-Capacitive Circuit
• All-Inductive Circuit
• Twin-T RC Network
• Broadband Pulse Transformer Model
• All-Capacitive Loops (ACL)
• All-Inductive Cutsets (ICS)
• All-Capacitive Loop Example
• Controlled Sources
• Controlled (Dependent) Sources
• Floating VCVS
• Circuits with M > 1
• First-Order MOSFET Model
• VCVS and CCCS Example
• Two Inputs, Three Outputs
• Third-Order Opamp Model
• A Subcircuit Scheme
• Subcircuit Opamp Model
• Fifth-Order Active Filter
• State Variable Filter
• Seventh-Order Elliptical Low-Pass Filter
• Square Root of Frequency (+10dB/decade) Circuit
• HV (200V) Shunt MOSFET Regulator
• LTC 1562 Band-Pass Filter IC in a Quad IC
• LTC 1562 Quad Band-Pass Filter IC
• BJT Constant Current Source-A Simple Linear Model Using the NDS Method
• uA733 Video Amplifier
• Leverrier's Algorithm
• Numerical Transfer Function [1]
• Transfer Function Using Leverrier's Algorithm for Twin-T RC Network
• Stability Analysis
• Unity Gain Differential Amplifiers
• Stability of LM158 Opamp Model
• High-Voltage Shunt Regulator-Stability Analysis
• Transient Analysis
• Switched Transient Analysis
• N = 2 Switched Circuit Transient Response
• Comparator 100-Hz Oscillator
• Transient Analysis of Pulse Transformer
• Passive RCL Circuit Transient Analysis
• Mathcad's Differential Equation Solvers
• A Mathematical Pulse Width Modulator (PWM)
• Switching Power Supply Output Stage-Buck Regulator
• State Space Averaging
• Simple Triangular Waveform Generator
• Quadrature Oscillator
• Wein Bridge Oscillator
• DC Circuit Analysis
• Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) Circuit
• An Undergraduate EE Textbook Problem
• DC Test Circuit
• Stacking VCVS's and Paralleling VCCS's
• DC Voltage Sweep (RTD Circuit)
• RTD Circuit-Step Resistor Value
• Floating 5-V Input Source
• Three-Phase Circuits
• Convert ? Floating Voltage Inputs to Single-Ended Y Inputs
• Three-Phase NDS Solution
• Three-Phase Y-Unbalanced Load
• Three-Phase Y-Connected Unbalanced Load-Floating Delta Input
• Balanced Y-Load

Tolerance Analysis

Some Facts about Tolerance Analysis

• DC Circuits
• Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) Circuit
• A Note on Asymmetric Tolerances
• Centered Difference Approximation-Sensitivities
• RTD Circuit Monte Carlo Analysis (MCA)
• RTD MCA with R4 Tolerance = 10%
• RTD Circuit Fast Monte Carlo Analysis (FMCA)
• A Case of FMCA Greater than EVA
• Tolerancing Inputs
• Beta Distributions
• RTD MCA-Beta (Skewed) Distribution
• MCA of RTD Circuit using Bimodal (Gapped) Distribution Inputs
• AC Circuits
• Circuit Output vs. Component Value
• Exact Values of C1 Sensitivity
• Multiple-Output EVA
• Butterworth Low-Pass Filter Circuit
• Butterworth Low-Pass Filter MCA
• Butterworth Low-Pass Filter EVA
• Butterworth Low-Pass Filter FMCA
• Multiple-Feedback Band-Pass Filter (BPF) Circuit
• Multiple-Feedback BPF MCA
• Multiple-Feedback BPF EVA
• Multiple-Feedback BPF FMCA
• Switching Power Supply Compensation Circuit
• Switching Power Supply Compensation MCA
• Switching Power Supply Compensation EVA
• Switching Power Supply Compensation FMCA
• Sallen and Key Band-Pass Filter (BPF) Circuit
• Sallen and Key BPF MCA
• Sallen and Key BPF EVA
• Sallen and Key BPF FMCA
• State Variable Filter Circuit
• State Variable Filter MCA
• State Variable Filter EVA
• State Variable Filter FMCA and MCA Combined
• High-Q Hum Notch Filter Circuit
• High-Q Hum Notch Filter MCA
• High-Q Hum Notch Filter EVA
• High-Q Hum Notch Filter FMCA
• LTC 1562 MCA
• LTC 1562 EVA
• Transient Tolerance Analysis
• Transient MCA-Twin-T RC Network
• Transient MCA-Multiple Feedback BPF
• AC and Transient MCA-Bessel HPF
• Transient MCA-State Variable Filter
• Three-Phase Circuits
• Three-Phase Y-Connected Unbalanced Load MCA
• Three-Phase Y-Connected Unbalanced Load EVA
• Three-Phase Y-Connected Unbalanced Load FMCA
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Components Nominally Zero
• Tolerance Analysis of Opamp Offsets
• Best-Fit Resistor Ratios
• Truncated Gaussian Distribution
• LTC1060 Switched Capacitor Filter

Index

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