General linear methods for nonlinear DAEs in circuit simulation The Modified Nodal Analysis leads to differential algebraic equations with properly stated leading terms. In this article a special structure of the DAEs modelling electrical circuits is exploited in order to derive a new decoupling for nonlinear index 2 DAEs. This decoupling procedure leads to a solvability result and is also used to study general linear methods a class of numerical schemes that covers both Runge Kutta and linear multistep methods. Convergence for index 2 DAEs is proved.