***** Single NMOS Transistor .measure (Id-Vd) *** * Altering device witdth leads to select new model due to binning limits. * New model has artificially thick gate oxide (changed from default 3n to 4n) * to demonstrate the effect. m1 d g s b nch L=0.6u W=9.99u ; W is slightly below binning limit vgs g 0 3.5 vds d 0 3.5 vs s 0 dc 0 vb b 0 dc 0 * model binning * uses default parameters, except toxe .model nch.1 nmos ( version=4.4 level=54 lmin=0.1u lmax=20u wmin=0.1u wmax=10u toxe=3n ) .model nch.2 nmos ( version=4.4 level=54 lmin=0.1u lmax=20u wmin=10u wmax=100u toxe=4n) .control dc vds 0 3.5 0.05 vgs 3.5 0.5 -0.5 meas dc is_at FIND i(vs) AT=1 meas dc is_max max i(vs) meas dc vds_at2 when i(vs)=10m * starting with branches in descending order of vgs * trig ist the first branch which crosses 5mA * Targ is the first branch crossing 10mA meas dc vd_diff1 trig i(vs) val=0.005 rise=1 targ i(vs) val=0.01 rise=1 * trig ist the first branch which crosses 5mA * Targ is the second branch crossing 10mA meas dc vd_diff2 trig i(vs) val=0.005 rise=2 targ i(vs) val=0.01 rise=2 alter @m1[w]=10.01u ; W is slightly above binning limit dc vds 0 3.5 0.05 vgs 3.5 0.5 -0.5 meas dc is_at FIND i(vs) AT=1 meas dc is_max max i(vs) meas dc vds_at2 when i(vs)=10m meas dc vd_diff1 trig i(vs) val=0.005 rise=1 targ i(vs) val=0.01 rise=1 * there is only one branch crossing 10mA, so this second meas fails with targ out of interval echo echo The next one will fail (no two branches crossing 10 mA): meas dc vd_diff2 trig i(vs) val=0.005 rise=2 targ i(vs) val=0.01 rise=2 *rusage all plot dc1.i(vs) i(vs) .endc .end