Patent ID: 8494794

Claim:
A method for estimating electrical parameters of an interconnecting electrical network of a device, where the interconnecting network connects. one or more electrical excitation sources through one or more electrical excitation ports one or more electrical measurement apparatus through one or more electrical measurement ports, and one or more electrical loads through one or more electrical load ports of the device, comprising: connecting one or more electrical sources to the one or more electrical excitation ports; selecting a plurality of distinct electrical loads; initially determining at least a subset of the electrical parameters for the plurality of distinct electrical loads; measuring an electrical response via the electrical measurement ports for the plurality of electrical loads; determining the electrical parameters of the interconnecting network using the initially determined subset of electrical parameters and the measured electrical responses corresponding to each of the plurality of electrical loads, wherein at least one electrical load is connected to each of at least two electrical load ports of the interconnecting network and where each electrical load at each of the at least two electrical load ports is changed at least once.