Table–driven Analyses in the Spice–pac Circuit Simulation Package
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Recent applications of SPICE–PAC to transistor parameter extraction and hierarchical simulation require rather flexible circuit analyses, performed for irregularly distributed values of independent variables. An implementation of table–driven analyses (DC, AC and time–domain) is described in which tables of arbitrarily distributed independent variables (voltages, frequencies or timepoints) are used rather than the fixed–step strategy implemented in SPICE–like simulators. Simple examples are used to illustrate applications of table-driven analyses.
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