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Spice File with mod. extension?

I wanted an LTspice file for a FET, I found it at the site below, but it shows up as a mod. file. Does that make any sense?

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Mike

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amdx
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Also known as a winamp media file.

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amdx

The extension does not really matter. It is a text file with the standard spice subcircuit definition.....

.SUBCKT ZVN4306A 3 4 5

*NODES: DRAIN GATE SOURCE M1 3 2 5 5 MOD1 RG 4 2 108 RL 3 5 6E6 C1 2 5 224.5E-12 C2 3 2 10.5E-12 D1 5 3 DIODE1
  • .MODEL MOD1 NMOS VTO=2.634 RS=0.2762 RD=0.0 IS=1E-15 KP=9.77
+CBD=405E-12 PB=1 LAMBDA=0 .MODEL DIODE1 D IS=6.19E-13 N=1.0043 RS=0.065 .ENDS ZVN4306A

Place an nmos symbol CTRL right click on it. Change the prefix to X and the value to ZVN4306A.

Add a spice directive .include c:\\wherethefileis\\ZVN4306A.mod

DNA

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Genome

*.mod seems to be the convention in SE Asia for a single device model file.

While we gurus ;-) tend to use *.sub or *.lib.

Not that it matters... a .LIB statement will load any old file name you give it.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
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Jim Thompson

Thanks DNA, When I tried to open it my media player loaded.

Mike

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amdx

Harumphh... sometimes right click|open with|choose program works or just rename it as .txt.

DNA

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Genome

I changed mod. to txt. and life is good. Thanks, Mike

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amdx

But to join the big boys, change it to .lib or .sub ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

Thus spake Timothy Thompson who would have all spice file extensions named .tim

In fact, given the extreme posibility of his imminent death .tim should become the accepted extension for all spice text files.

Obviously there will be a transition between .jim and .tim during the changeover period.

Yo, If you posted your pictures right and you're not getting burnt (or even if you are) are you getting a coffin with a 'power bulge' on it?

DNA

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Genome

Sno-o-o-ort! How did you get "tim" from "Jim"... too much liquid refreshment ?:-)

I will not have a coffin, I WILL be "burnt"... and scattered upon this lovely hillside where I presently live.

My late son's ashes were surreptitiously scattered at PIR per his wishes ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I worked backwards. Jim sounds like a cool dude name for someone who had parents who thought Timothy was a cool dude name for a person who wasn't going to be like James Dean........ Who was probably called Timothy Dean.

Last time my dad died the front end involved a coffin. He took a journey through the curtains and got burnt.

Best I know is he got rendered for cat food and the coffin went to the next dead person.........

Burble burble.

DNA

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Genome

Ah, yes! "Rebel Without a Cause". Love that movie. I have "The Complete James Dean Collection" on DVD.

In Mesa, AZ, they caught some funeral director doing just that :-(

Except he had this fascination with certain male parts and cut them off and put them in jars of Formaldehyde ;-)

Of course Mesa, AZ, is the town where they caught the fireman "doing" a neighbor's sheep ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I think I meant to say, whilst the moment of clarity remains, you did your son right.

DNA

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Genome

Mom doesn't let me play with the big boys yet, but when I can, if I change it to lib. is it installed into the program so I can click on "pick new mosfet" and find the part I got the file of? (ZVN4306A) If not, is it possible to do that? Mike PS. I just picked up the LTspice users manual from Office Max, I had them print and bind the pdf. file. A $26.00 manual for a free program. hmmm. I find it much easier to read in book form. And I can make notes.

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amdx

I bought an ibico punch and binder many years ago so I can create my own manuals for design reviews, etc.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

[snip]

I don't know how LTspice handles libraries.

PSpice can do it two ways....

Add the library name in "Library and Include Files", and it'll be permanently available in all schematics.

But since I have at least 66 bipolar, CMOS, and BiCMOS process libraries I just add a .LIB statement onto the second page of the schematic to avoid device naming confusions.

...Jim Thompson

--
|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

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