Orthogonal Rational Approximation of Transfer Functions for High-Frequency Circuits

Abstract: Rational function approximations find applications in many areas including macro-modeling of high-frequency circuits, model order reduction for controller design, interpolation and extrapolation of system responses, surrogate models for high-energy physics, and approximation of elementary mathematical functions. The unknown denominator polynomial of the model results in a non-linear problem, which can be replaced with successive solutions of linearized problems following the Sanathanan-Koerner (SK) iteration. An orthogonal basis can be obtained based on Arnoldi resulting in a stabilized SK iteration. We present an extension of the stabilized SK, called Orthogonal Rational Approximation (ORA), which ensures real polynomial coefficients and stable poles for realizability of electrical networks. We also introduce an efficient implementation of ORA for multi-port networks based on a block QR decomposition.