An arnoldi based thermal network reduction method for electro-thermal analysis

In this paper we consider the problem of approximating the large discretized thermal network that models the heat conduction phenomenon in an electrical system by means of models of reduced state-space dimensions. To this aim we present an efficient and numerically stable Arnoldi type algorithm by which a multi-point moment matching approximant of the discretized thermal network is obtained and we apply it to the electro-thermal analysis of an operational transconductance amplifier.