Stability analysis of analog frequency dividers in the quasi-periodic regime

Almudena Suárez , J.C. Sarkissian (1) , Raphaël Sommet (1) , Edouard Ngoya (1) , Raymond Quéré (1)

1 IRCOM - Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes

A simulation technique allowing the determination of all the steady state regimes of synchronized devices, including the quasi-periodic operation, is presented here. Combined with a continuation method, it provides the circuit quasi-periodic solution paths as a function of any parameter of interest. The different bifurcation loci on a two-parameters space, obtained here both from periodic and quasi-periodic simulations, allow an easy prediction acid deep understanding of the circuit behavior. By means of the proposed method, the possible working regimes of a MMIC analog frequency divider have been determined and experimentally confirmed.

Domaines: Electronique

Almudena Suárez, J.C. Sarkissian, Raphaël Sommet, Edouard Ngoya, Raymond Quéré. Stability analysis of analog frequency dividers in the quasi-periodic regime. IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, 1994, 4 (5), pp.138 - 140. ⟨10.1109/75.289517⟩. ⟨hal-00924452⟩