Efficient transient noise analysis in circuit simulation

Stochastic differential algebraic equations (SDAEs) arise as a mathematical model for electrical network equations that are influenced by additional sources of Gaussian white noise. We discuss adaptive linear multi-step methods for their numerical integration, in particular stochastic analogues of the trapezoidal rule and the two-step backward differentiation formula, and we obtain conditions that ensure mean-square convergence of this methods. For the case of small noise we present a strategy for controlling the step-size in the numerical integration. It is based on estimating the mean-square local errors and leads to step-size sequences that are identical for all computed paths. Test results illustrate the performance of the presented methods. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)