Re: [ng-spice-devel] Ng-spice and diode model


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From Al Davis <aldavis@ieee.org>
Date Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:18:04 -0700
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Paolo wrote:
> What about a surgery operation on mos models to extract the diode code and
> make them refer to a common diode model ? 
> Do you think this operation
> possible or a waste of time ?

It is possible and worth the effort.  To port a model to ACS, you
must do this.  For the ones that come with the Berkeley distribution,
I have already done it, so there is no need to do it again.

The bigger effort, in porting to ACS, is to separate out the steps
"gather", "precondition", "solve", "test", "scatter".  It is worth
it, because without doing it you will never be able to move beyond
Spice as we know it today.

al.

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