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- From: rll@frieda.mitre.org (Roberto L. Landrau)
- Subject: Re: Anybody ever simulate a tunnel diode with SPICE?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.104521.21636@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Aug13.231649.9094@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:45:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.231649.9094@ctr.columbia.edu> stevens@madvlsi.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens) writes:
- >I would like to know if anybody out there has ever simulated a tunnel
- >diode with SPICE.
-
- Yes (PSPICE).
-
- >Did you write a custom model and add it to the
- >SPICE2 or SPICE3 source code?
-
- I modified the code for the ``d'' model. I added another ``level''.
-
- >Did you make a .subckt macro model?
-
- No.
-
- >Did you use the level 2 diode model in hspice?
-
- I didn't have access to HSPICE at the time.
-
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >--Andy Stevens
- >Columbia U.
-
- Another option is to use a nonlinear dependent voltage source and do
- some curve fitting.
-
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