New methodologies for the analysis and synthesis of oscillator circuits

Advances in the analysis and synthesis of oscillator circuits, using harmonic balance (HB), are presented. They rely on the use of auxiliary generators, which can be introduced into the HB software to impose mathematical conditions or to extract a realistic oscillator model. In particular, a bifurcation-detection technique, for the accurate design of dual-frequency oscillators, and a semi-analytical function, for the prediction of oscillation...