I am trying to simulate a voltage multiplier circuit for positive DC input using logarithmic amplifiers and inverting adder implemented by op-amps(uA-741) and non-ideal diodes. The first stage takes the natural log of two inputs, which is summed by the inverting adder in the second stage, inverted using a unity gain inverting stage, and finally sent to an antilog stage to get the product of two signals. I have no problem with the temperature-dependency of the configuration and so am trying to keep it simple.
The circuit seems fine until the last stage, where the forward biased diode forces a voltage differential(about 433 mV) between the two input terminals of the op-amp thus saturating the output. This is obviously happening because the input to the exponential stage is too high.
I am aware there was a similar problem posed in the following link: Analog multiplier using logarithmic and anti-logarithmic opamp issue
However, the poster could not provide sufficient information about his inputs, component models etc. to get a proper answer. Someone suggested raising the resistances which for me has failed to solve the problem. Thanks in advance. 
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