Fast Nonlinear Analysis of Reconfigurable Microwave Systems by a Behavioral Model of MEMS Switches

Abstract

The simulation of nonlinear distortion and transient effects in MEMS-reconfigurable microwave circuits and systems of large size is efficiently performed by resorting to a novel behavioral model of MEMS switches. The model is organized in such a way as to allow its standalone use as well as its insertion into a general-purpose envelope-transient simulator based on the harmonic balance principle, in much the same way as an ordinary circuit component.