Efficient Frequency Domain Models for Simulation of Circuits with Diode Rectifiers

This paper proposes some efficient frequency domain (FD) models of circuits whose nonlinear elements consist in half wave (one diode) and full wave (two diodes) rectifiers. This class of circuits may contain a lot of home appliances (air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, microwave ovens, washing machines) together with various lightning devices such as LEDs and CFLs driven by electronic circuits. All these devices contain the above diode rectifiers. The analyses using the proposed models lead to a shorter simulation time than that used by TRAN or various HB analyses implemented in ADS.