ADS Dialog Boxes

The relevant ADS dialog box pages are shown below. All Harmonic Balance and Options parameters that apply:

The Harmonic Balance Freq Tab

The Harmonic Balance Sweep Tab

The Harmonic Balance Initial Guess Tab

Note Setting Transient Assisted Harmonic Balance to On enables Advanced Transient Settings, which includes Transient Stop Time, Transient Max Time Step, Min Time for detecting steady state, Transient IV_RelTol, Transient Other, Use only Freq(1) for transient, Save transient data to dataset.

The Harmonic Balance Solver Tab

Notes Setting Convergence Mode to Advanced or Basic enables Max. Iterations and Advanced Continuation Parameters. The Advanced Continuation Parameters include: Arc Max Step, Arc Level Max Step, Arc Min Value, Arc Max Value, Max Step Ratio, Max Shrinkage. Setting Solver Type to Direct enables Matrix Re-use, Matrix Bandwidth, and Waveform Memory Reduction. Setting Solver Type to Krylov enables Krylov Restart Length, Advanced Krylov Parameters, and Waveform Memory Reduction. The Advanced Krylov Parameters include: Max Iterations, Krylov Noise Tolerance, Packing Threshold, Tight Tolerance, Loose Tolerance, Loose Iterations, Matrix Packing, and the Preconditioner choices Auto, DCP, BSP, SCP.

The Harmonic Balance Params Tab