AHA: Newton Fit in a Subcircuit

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Jim Thompson 10 years ago

Re: DIAC Spice Modeling

I was somewhat annoyed that my approximate solution to a transcendental equation either missed VF by about a volt or IP by

+50%.

So I mused, can I implement a Newton-Raphson solver in a subcircuit.

Yep. Here's how it's done...

The calculation of the parameters is implemented BEFORE simulation begins, thus the time penalty is nil (parameters are stationary during simulation). ...Jim Thompson

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bitrex 10 years ago

Cool! Except error connection refused on the link.

Also, yo mama's so fat even Newton couldn't fit her in a subcircuit!

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Jim Thompson 10 years ago

Server is in Connecticut... maybe the snow got the.

Huh? Is that a slur? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson 10 years ago

It's back on-line now. ...Jim Thompson

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bitrex 10 years ago

The younger generation grew up absorbing a large oral history of "yo mama" jokes. Just trying to make my contribution... ; )

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Phil Hobbs 10 years ago

"Yo' Momma jokes are, like, so old and stale and boring...just like yo' Momma." "Damn you and your free-form 'yo Momma joke."

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(I heard a lot of those, raising children in the NYC 'burbs. The best one was, "Yo' Momma's so fat it takes you three trains and a bus to get on her good side.")

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bitrex 10 years ago

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basically sums it up.

"Ya mama so fat..." "How fat is she?" "She can get busy with 22 burritos when times are rough. I seen her in the back of Taco Bell with handcuffs."

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Jim Thompson 10 years ago

Re: DIAC Spice Modeling

MyDIAC.zip, on the Device Models & Subcircuits Page of my website, has now been updated to include the Newton Solver in the DIAC model library. ...Jim Thompson

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Martin Brown 10 years ago

Yes. It is annoying that typical parameters make any cunning approximations for a decent closed form solution more or less impossible.

Your simple starting guess is ingenious since the higher order terms would make it worse!

Cunning and elegant!

Regards, Martin Brown

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AHA: Newton Fit in a Subcircuit

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