I'm honing my Spice modeling skills and need some suggestions of devices whose manufacturer-provided Spice model doesn't match reality very well, or has serious issues.
I'll try my hand at modeling the device and post my results on these newsgroups and on the LTspice list. It would be helpful if, when you make a suggestion, you state where and how it fails to match up with claimed data sheet performance.
[No real nasty systems-on-a-chip... I want to save those for paying customers... and, for now, keep it limited to Analog parts :-] ...Jim Thompson
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bitrex
4046? (Does a Spice model even exist?)
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Jim Thompson
You mean the PLL/VCO? I thought someone had done a model for that, but I'm game. It's mostly digital but I'll at least take a peek. Those things are easy in PSpice, due to its digital primitives that are lacking in other Spice's. But I can make Analog logic ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Phil Hobbs
How about the AD608 mixer IF chip? AFAIK none of those have decent Spice models. The SA614 sure doesn't. (That's one of my faves--I use it all over the place.)
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Tim Williams
TL431 (and TLV-) that exhibit actual compensation behavior.
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They never give you accurate match to the noise characteristics!
I'd like to be able to put the amp in the circuit, step it up or down to simulate the AC swing, and watch the noise.
Pick a good low noise, linear. LT1115 with its 1nV/rtHz, or the popular TI amp with 3nV/rtHz, I only need enough gain match to make certain the noise at the output is caused by the way I used the OpAmp.
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John Larkin
The AD8014 model is really, really bad.
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Fred Abse
ZTX415. The published subcircuit works, but bears little resemblance, either to app notes, or real life.
I recall exchanging a subcircuit and some LTspice-derived plots with you. Did it run any more realistically in Pspice?
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over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
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David Eather
Some basic 741's really suck - they can deliver amps with no power supply draw (I didn't bother to check the rest)
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Nico Coesel
Transistors with avalanche characteristics.
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
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Fred Abse
I got there ahead of you ;-)
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Fred Abse
741s suck, period.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
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Jim Thompson
Not having a 4046 at hand, and the data sheet is sorely lacking, could someone measure the voltages at pins 11 and 12, versus VCC?
Thanks! ...Jim Thompson
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John Fields
I've got some 4046's in stock, and I'll give you one so you can do the
legwork yourself and not have to rely on anyone else's possibly faulty
data messing up your results.
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Jim Thompson
Thanks! That will allow me to also observe its droop versus set current. ...Jim Thompson
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Jim Thompson
Will run under PSpice, but nothing else. (MNTYMXDLY)
...Jim Thompson
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Jim Thompson
Got delayed by paying work ;-)
Could someone 'scope each end of the VCO timing cap (C1, pins 6 & 7) and tell me what they look like? (The block diagram implies a physical impossibility, so there's something limiting the pull-down switches to some voltage. A waveform will expose the "secret" :)
Thanks! ...Jim Thompson
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