To Dear Mr./Ms. Bhaduri: How are you? Please try to read the papers below if you have not yet been aware of. You can get those MATLAB programs from the author. At least from my experience, they work well and give common poles for N-port. Thanks Sincerely, Se-Ho You @ARTICLE{BGustavsen1999, AUTHOR = "Bj\orn Gustavsen and Adam Semlyen", TITLE = "Rational Approximation of Frequency Domain responses by vector fitting", JOURNAL = IEEE_J_PWRD, YEAR = "1999", volume = "14", number = "3", pages = "1052-1061", month = jul, note = "", abstract = "", keywords = "", source = "", file = F } @ARTICLE{BGustavsen2002, AUTHOR = "B. Gustavsen", TITLE = "Computer code for rational approximation of frequency dependent admittance matrices", JOURNAL = IEEE_J_PWRD, YEAR = "2002", volume = "17", number = "4", pages = "1093-1098", month = oct, note = "", abstract = "", keywords = "", source = "", file = F } On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Amitava Bhaduri wrote: > > > Hi, > > Using a full-wave tool I have been able to generate an impedance matrix of > an N-port interconnect and later converted the Z matrix into S-parameters. > Using "nport" from spectre I tried connecting the generated parametric > data to the remaining device netlist of the circuit. But the simulation > doesn't work due to stability and passivity problem. I have generated the > impedance data for 10 frquency points. > I have learnt that using rational function approximation the passivity of > the network can be ensured, but I am not sure how to proceed with that > with Z-matrix (or S-matrix) in hand. Can anyone suggest ways or the > necessary steps that I have to folow in order to make the interconnect > network passive and use it with spectre circuit simulator. Is it possible > to use MATLAB to do this rational function approximation and if it is, > then how do I do it? > > Thanks in advance, > Amitava > > Amitava Bhaduri > Research Assistant > 527 ERC > University of Cincinnati > OH - 45220 > ph(lab) : 513-556-3025 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu