songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer) (04/22/91)
Hi, This may not be precisely the place for this, but I can't find a better so here goes: I've got a set of linear equations procduced from nodal analysis of a fourth order filter. I'm worried about pole placement so I need the equations solved and factored. There are six equations, and about 18 unknowns. Eight of the unknowns are nodal voltages and six of them should be eliminated. Yesterday I naively typed them into Mathematica told it to solve for V1, eliminating V2 - V6 (implying that it will be interms of Vout). Seven hours later, I stopped it. I'm running on an 040 with 12Meg of memory. What can I do to phrase the problem better so Mathematica can handle it in a reasonable amount of time. It seemed to be adding constraining equations to the original set. (ie, R1 != 0, R2 != 0, C1 s != 0) Can I suppress the generation of these? Will that speed it up? Am I simply asking too much from it? -Chris songer@ecn.purdue.edu