I am puzzled by a charge conservation problem of capacitor, and tried a spectre simulation to solve it. What I did is to put an ideal capacitor and an ideal inductor in parallel, set an initial current in inductor, and ran a transient.  The tank oscillates, of cause, but with a decaying magnitude. Then I tried the code in

http://www.designers-guide.org/Modeling/varactors.pdf

by replacing the nonlinear q = c0∗v + c1∗v1∗ln(cosh((v – v0)/v1)); to a linear q=c0*v. It turns out that this model has the same result as the schematic view result. So I assume this model has same problem with the schematic model, NOT conserving charge. What is the solution then? How to model a charge conserving capacitor?

Thanks~~~~
Ji

Dr. Kundert,
Thank you for the reply! I found my answer with your help! The voltage dependent capacitor (varactor) distributes energy to harmonicas, and the oscillation decades if no energy is injected to the tank (gm cell).


Regards,
Ji