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Referencing a model, not a model instance

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itos over 8 years ago

Hello,

I found the post about disabling flicker noise with alter in this forum and I got it working:

turnOffFlicker1 alter mod=N15.xmmaster.lvtnfetacc param=nfalw value=0
turnOffFlicker2 alter mod=N15.xmmaster.lvtnfetacc param=nfblw value=0
turnOffFlicker3 alter mod=N15.xmmaster.lvtnfetacc param=nfclw value=0

If I reference the model (i.e. lvtnfetacc and masterlvtnfet from the model files) I get:

ERROR (SFE-1997): "disable_flicker.scs" 6: turnOffFlicker4: parameter `mod': Invalid model name `lvtnfetacc' was given as value of parameter `mod'.

I tried all possible variations. Unfortunately the model files are so nested that I don't know what's going on. Generally there is a subckt for "lvtnfet" which instantiates instance xmmaster of lvtnfetacc. lvtnfetacc itself is a subckt which instantiates m1. m1 is a reference to the model lvtnfetacc of type utsoi which has the parameter nfalw etc:

sub

Please help me to set nfalw to zero globally without listing all instances.

Also, is it possible to list multiple mod/param/value pairs at once so that I do not need to create thousands of turnOffFlickerXX lines that go up to 1000?

Thank you!

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    itos over 8 years ago
    Andrew, thanks again for all your great and enduring help in this forum!
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