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Message started by yvkrishna on Aug 11^th, 2012, 4:17am

Title: Hacking BJT model file
Post by yvkrishna on Aug 11^th, 2012, 4:17am

Hi,
I wanted to explore the effects of BJT beta(current gain =ic/ib) on VBE nature w.r.t temp etc.

I planned to edit the existing model file for 'BF' (ideal forward beta) value to a large number like 100 and re-simulate.

does doing this make the new bjt model valid and practical or does it have some dependency to any other model parameter?

Thanks,
yvkrishna

Title: Re: Hacking BJT model file
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Aug 13^th, 2012, 5:40am

Maks gave a nice answer to your other (related) question:
http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1344685021

So, beta is related to other model parameters (or, perhaps, other model parameters capture other aspects of the same underlying physics).

That said, you can probably change beta by a factor of 2 and still have a "reasonable" model.