Warped MPDAE Models including Minimisation Criteria for the Simulation of RF Signals

In radio frequency (RF) applications, electric circuits produce signals including widely separated time scales. A multidimensional representation yields an efficient model by decoupling the time scales. Consequently, a warped multirate partial differential algebraic equation (MPDAE) describes the circuit's behaviour. The appropriate determination of an arising local frequency function is crucial for the efficiency of this approach. Variational calculus implies a necessary condition to a specific solution, which exhibits a minimal amount of oscillations in the whole domain of dependence. We apply a similar strategy to minimise oscillatory performance in some boundary values only. Now variational calculus yields a boundary condition, which can easily be used in numerical methods. We compare the results of both minimisation criteria in a simulation of a warped MPDAE model. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)