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TINA/Spice: Licence patch

Kuramochi Tadahiko
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Tool/software: TINA-TI or Spice Models

Hi,

I received the following question from my customer.

They see the hspice_help.pdf included the HSPICE Model for SN74AHC1G14().

On the page 4, it is mentioned that "

NOTE:

If the process models are level 37 you will need a license patch from your simulation
vendor. Check the ‘device’_process.lib for the level information. Please provide the
following information to the model provider. TI will request the vendor to send you a
license file".

- Does this licence patch mean that the licence key or the licence administrated by the the lmtools?

- Is this licence patch provided free and indefinitely?

Best Regards,

Kuramochi

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    TI__Mastermind 41310 points

    Kuramochi-san,

    The HSpice level 37 model was an internal proprietary TI MOS model that was used in the late 1980's and early 1990's. TI allowed Meta Software (The original owner of HSpice) to install the model but required a license for it and the TI aMOS (analog MOS, Level 41) model. These models were replaced for almost all of TI's MOS technologies in the 1990's as we switched to the BSIM3v3 support. In this case, the .lib file contains level 49 MOS models (BSIM3v3), so no additional requirements are needed for the models to run in HSpice.

    I would be very surprised if you found an older TI MOS model available for any of the devices we have available in the product folders.