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If this again fails, bail out. |
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Step 1 may be skipped by |
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option noopiter |
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Step 2 may be skipped by |
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option gminsteps=0 |
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Step 3 may be skipped by |
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option srcsteps=0 |
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In this branch a fourth method is added: |
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4) Start a transient simulation for a specific amount of time. |
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Keep all data local. Keep the matrix values as an |
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operating point for the simulation following. |
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If this fails, finally stop. |
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Operating point by transient is initiated by the command 'optran'. |
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The first three entries will override noopiter, gminsteps, srcsteps. |
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A typical command may be |
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optran 0 0 0 50u 10m 0 |
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(no initial iteration, no gmin stepping, no source stepping, |
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stepsize for optran 50 us, optran run until 10 ms, no supply ramping |
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The time for transient is determined a priori. If a transient |
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simulation follows, choose 100 time the TSTEP value. If an ac |
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or noise simulation follows, take the inverted starting |
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A method to stop the op transient simulation, when all nodes |
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have become stable, might be desirable, but has not yet been implemented. |
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Step 1 may be skipped by |
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option noopiter |
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Step 2 may be skipped by |
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option gminsteps=0 |
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Step 3 may be skipped by |
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option srcsteps=0 |
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The transient op calculation uses the 'UIC' flag for its startup. |
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Basically two applications come to mind: You may use this with |
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