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I was trying to import PSpice model to use with a commercial simulator and after two hours of wasted time I gave up.
If I don't resolve this soon, I will use a competitor chip, because I don't want to abandon the usual flow/tools and use TINA-TI just to use this chip.
I get that providing a free tool (TINA-TI) is useful to many customers, but Is there any legitimate reason why TI does not provide plain SPICE, Spectre or unencrypted HSPICE models, which can be used in most (all?) high-end commercial simulators, such as HSPICE, Spectre, ADS, Mentor AFS etc?
I already saw on the forum that other people have had a similar problem and resolved it by using a competitor chip.
Please consider this: who is more likely to order more chips - someone using a free tool, or someone using a high-end commercial simulator which costs a LOT?
By providing only a PSpice model, incompatible with high-end simulators, TI effectively pushes away customers having an established design flow to competitors which provide plain SPICE models.
Ultimately, this translates to lost revenue - all because of a decision to provide only PSpice models.
Well Dusan,
The product folder does show a download list of PSpice type models - the .lib one opens in my version of LTSpice, but not sure if it actually runs.
"High end simulators" hard to interpret that - hard to support all of those with finite manhours. Is there a specific one you are trying to use.
Which part are you thinking of, ADA4940? The ADA4945 is a later release, but relatively high quiescent.
Hello.
I used imported model for the THS4541 and also THS4501 in LTspice and didn't meet any problems.I didn't try the THS4551 but I assume it is the same.
