Electrical Engineering 3K4: Simulation and Optimization I

Abstract

This courseware is designed to familiarize students with a wide range of concepts and techniques applicable to modern simulation, optimization, and computer-aided design of electrical circuits and systems. Topics covered within this text include: circuit analysis, sensitivity analysis, iterative methods, Gauss elimination, linear system simulation, nonlinear system simulation, filter design, design with tolerances, design centering, Lagrange multipliers, least pth and minimax optimization, adjoint circuits, the adjoint method, gradient and non-gradient optimization methods, one-dimensional strategies, direct search, quasi-Newton algorithms, and more, all based on work carried out within the Simulation Optimization Systems (SOS) Research Laboratory. Examples and computational problems from prior years’ materials are provided throughout the text, as well as three supplemental reprints of Bandler’s publications.