• DocumentCode
    763027
  • Title

    Early effect modeling in SPICE

  • Author

    McAndrew, Colin C. ; Nagel, Laurence W.

  • Author_Institution
    Motorola Inc., Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    136
  • Lastpage
    138
  • Abstract
    The approximations made in the Early effect formulation of the SPICE Gummel-Poon bipolar junction transistor (BJT) model were reasonable when the model was first developed but introduce unnecessary inaccuracies when modeling the output conductance of modern BJTs. In this paper, we give the reason the original approximations were made, present a new way to plot data to best show the Early effect, and detail a new, consistent, coupled method to determine forward and reverse Early voltages
  • Keywords
    SPICE; bipolar transistors; semiconductor device models; Early effect; Gummel-Poon model; SPICE; bipolar junction transistor; output conductance; Capacitance; Equations; Parameter extraction; SPICE; Stress; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4.485877
  • Filename
    485877