A simple method for finding all characteristic curves of piecewise-linear resistive circuits using an integer programming solver

摘要

A simple and efficient method is proposed for finding all characteristic curves of piecewise-linear resistive circuits using the integer programming solver CPLEX. It is proved that all characteristic curves can be obtained by this method using the manual of CPLEX and the original paper where the algorithm used in CPLEX is proposed. Our method can be implemented easily without writing complex programs, and all characteristic curves are obtained by solving mixed integer programming problems only twice.