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LM317: PSPICE Model ORPSIM-16308

Part Number: LM317
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: LM117, ,

Hello Team,

The built-in model for PSPICE is able to run an AC simulation, but gives an error (ORPSIM-16308) when running an Monte Carlo simulation.  Following is the error message.

 **** 05/11/22 15:44:37 ******* PSpice 17.4.0 (Nov 2018) ******* ID# 0 ********

 ** Profile: "SCHEMATIC1-bias"  [ c:\users\pyke\desktop\spherex-dib\boxpsdawcca\spice\pspice_rh117\lm117_u5-pspicefiles\schematic1\bi

 ****     CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION

******************************************************************************

** Creating circuit file "bias.cir" 
** WARNING: THIS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED FILE MAY BE OVERWRITTEN BY SUBSEQUENT SIMULATIONS

*Libraries: 
* Profile Libraries :
* Local Libraries :
.LIB "C:/Cadence/PSpiceTI/modelDownloads/LM317/LM317_TRANS.LIB" 
* From [PSPICE NETLIST] section of C:\cds_spb_home\cdssetup\OrCAD_PSpiceTIPSpice_Install\17.4.0\PSpice.ini file:
.lib "nom_pspti.lib" 
.lib "nom.lib" 

*Analysis directives: 
.AC DEC 10 1 100000K
.MC 50 AC VA YMAX OUTPUT ALL 
-------------$
ERROR(ORPSIM-16308): Must be a semiconductor
.OPTIONS ADVCONV
.OPTIONS FILEMODELSEARCH
.PROBE64 V(alias(*)) I(alias(*)) W(alias(*)) D(alias(*)) NOISE(alias(*)) 
.INC "..\SCHEMATIC1.net" 

**** INCLUDING SCHEMATIC1.net ****
* source LM117_U5
X_U1         N14568 VB N14575 LM317-N_TRANS
V_V1         N14568 0 28Vdc
R_R1         VA N14575 R_R1 475 TC=0,0 
.model        R_R1 RES R=1 DEV=1.12% TC1=0 TC2=0
R_R2         0 VA R_R2 4.22K TC=0,0 
.model        R_R2 RES R=1 DEV=0.54% TC1=0 TC2=0
C_C1         N14575 0 C_C1 1.5u  TC=0,0 
.model        C_C1 CAP C=1 DEV=10.52% TC1=0 TC2=0 VC1=0 VC2=0
R_R3         0 N14575  15 TC=0,0 
V_V2         VB VA DC 0Vdc AC 1Vac 

**** RESUMING bias.cir ****
.END
 

Regards,

Renan