A SPICE model for IGBTs

Berkeley SPICE is the most popular program for simulating the behavior of electronic circuits. The biggest stumbling block that most engineers run into is turning company specifications or vendor data sheets into SPICE device models that emulate real devices and run without problems. This is especially true for power devices, like IGBTs, where the cost of testing and possibly destroying devices is prohibitive. This paper describes the first known SPICE subcircuit macro model for IGBTs. Simulation results and a simple software solution for extracting SPICE models from data sheet parameters are presented