Application of Maximum Principle for Time Minimization of Circuit Design Process

Abstract: The possibility of applying the maximum principle of Pontryagin to the problem of optimisation of electronic circuits is analysed. It is shown that in spite of the fact that the problem of optimisation is formulated as a nonlinear task, and the maximum principle in this case isn't a sufficient condition for obtaining a maximum of the functional, it is possible to obtain the decision in the form of local minima. The relative acceleration of the CPU time for the best strategy found by means of maximum principle compared with the traditional approach is equal to some orders of magnitude.