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Great! Keep me posted.

My oldest son and I have done that for Bipolar devices. Looks like we better start thinking of making BSIM3V3 models from your data. Retirement income ;-)

I just read about Denise :-(

Cancer is such a nasty thing. We lost our youngest son, at 33, this past April, to colon cancer.

...Jim Thompson

Absolutely... this is actually a pretty common feature of high-end network analyzer/data analysis suites; it'd be a great benefit to expand it to the mere mortal world of tools!

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Well, a big old tube-based audio amplifier comes to mind, for boosting a small curve tracer's capabilities! But you might need to use a couple of strategically-placed resistors, etc, and maybe do a little arithmetic to scale the results (and maybe take the risk of damaging the little curve tracer, if a mistake is made).

I do love my Tek 575, though. I got it for next to nothing, because it was "broken". All that was wrong with it was a broken fan mount, which a few plastic zip-ties fixed in minutes. To be fair, though, to me it IS very big, and very heavy. I would sure hate to have to pack it to be guaranteed to survive UPS shipping! And it does take a few minutes to warm up to where it's really stable. But, I have never had to reboot it.

Regards,

Tom Gootee

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_> I just read about Denise :-(

_> Cancer is such a nasty thing. We lost our youngest son, at 33, this _> past April, to colon cancer.

Jim,

I'm so very sorry about your son. I hate that anyone else even has to know what it's like to lose someone that way. It's difficult beyond words.

(BTW, I tried to email you, via your website, from a Yahoo email account.)

Tom

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I received it. I'm still at the fall-apart-and-cry stage. Some day I'll be able to compose my thoughts, as you have done.

...Jim Thompson

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Unfortunately, I understand.

I'm so terribly sorry.

It WILL get better. But it will take some time.

- Tom