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Message started by genyap1 on May 30^th, 2008, 7:19am

Title: 'type' parameter in Juncap model (spectre)
Post by genyap1 on May 30^th, 2008, 7:19am

Good day, all.

Does anyone know what is the meaning of parameter 'type' (can be either 'n' or 'p') in
Spectre implementation of Juncap (philips junction diode model)?

Seems that changing n <--> p reverses the polarity of the device. Question is whether
it does anything else?

Thank you.

Title: Re: 'type' parameter in Juncap model (spectre)
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Jun 2^nd, 2008, 5:25am

A quick perusal of the Philips simkit source code for juncap2 doesn't show any parameters whose defaults depend on TYPE (sometimes, some QM constants are specific to P or N type).

Seems somewhat odd to have this parameter, though, rather than having people instantiate the diode the correct way.