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region annotation on mosfet

robert 21
robert 21 over 5 years ago

Hello , i am trying to set my transistor into saturation, i have tried results->annotaion->DC operation point as shown bellow.

I need it to show the region parameter near the mosfet.

How could it be done?

Thanks

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago

    Use View->Annotations->Setup in the schematic editor, and you can customise what is shown for each device. 

    Andrew.

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  • robert 21
    robert 21 over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew, my goes is to print the REGION parameter next to the transistor ,it only prints id,vds,vgs,Vdsat,gm.

    I tried to follow the step you suggested, unfortunetly i couldnt get the REGION paramter.

    Where did i go wrong?

    Thanks

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to robert 21

    Did you actually try using View->Annotations->Setup? These are the steps:

    1. Annotate the DC operating points as normal
    2. Bring up View->Annotations->Setup
    3. Then click on one of the  transistors in the schematic (you'll need to do this for each type of transistor)
    4. Change the instance name on the form to "*" (as shown in the picture)
    5. For one of the cdsParam labels (you may have some empty spare ones) click and change to "region" (as shown in the picture)
    6. Apply the form

    Here's the form (this is for a different technology so has a different set of parameters, but the principle is the same):

    Andrew.

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  • robert 21
    robert 21 over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew,I have followed the steps you showed and i get totally different parameters as shown in  the photo bellow.There is no regions ,gm etc.. paramters in the list.

    Where did i go wrong?

    Thanks

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to robert 21

    This is because the Display Mode column is set to Component Parameter and not DC Operating Point. You did not do step 1 that I listed above (annotate the DC operating points as normal first). You could change the Component Parameter to DC Operating Point, but I would advise making life easier for yourself and just annotating the DC operating points (Results->Annotate->DC Operating Points in ADE) as that is then less work.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • robert 21
    robert 21 over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew, I have set  Display mode into DC operating point as shown bellow , like you said int step 1.

    However the parameters are shown in grey(i cant change one of the cells into region) as shown bellow.

    How can i enable the option of change of these parameters, so i could change one of them into "REGION"

    Thanks


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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to robert 21

    It's because you still didn't do what I suggested in the first step. If you'd annotated the DC operating points (using Results->Annotate->DC Operating Point from ADE) first, then the Simulation Data Directory wouldn't have been blank as it is in your example (as you can see from my example, the directory was filled in). If that's not filled in, then the annotation setup cannot know what parameters are available (because nothing is available) and hence they are greyed out...

    That probably means you've not launched the schematic from the ADE window too, or you're doing it before having run a DC simulation saving the operating point data.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • robert 21
    robert 21 over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew ,It works ,Thank you very much.

    Before running DC simulation.Results->Annotate->DC Operating Point from ADE ,then i made sure DC operating point data is save and ran DC simulation.

    After that operating point parameters where not grey and it worked as shown bellow.

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