Fast and accurate analysis of one-dimensional arrays of dynamic PWL cells

This paper describes a new method for the time-domain analysis of one-dimen sional arrays of dynamic piecewise linear cells. The method exploits the lo cal connectivity, typical of cellular arrays, and the piecewise linear beha viour of the v-i characteristic of the non-linear elements to obtain a piec ewise analytical expression of the solution. Examples demonstrate the accur acy and the efficiency, in terms of CPU-time, of the proposed method with r espect to standard simulation tools as SPICE and the numerical integration of a system of ordinary differential equations. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wil ey & Sons, Ltd.