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TINA/Spice/ALM2402-Q1: Spice model - less than two connections at U23.7

Part Number: ALM2402-Q1
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TINA-TI

Tool/software: TINA-TI or Spice Models

I have imported the ALM2402Q1 model into Topspice (I tried TINA and PSpice models) and I get a connection problem with U23.7 - less than 2 connections??    Has anyone else seen this issue and what is the fix?

  • Daniel,

    It sounds like the model netlist has been corrupted and/or TOPspice is encountering some issue where it is ingoring lines in the model's netlist.

    As an experiment I tried downloading the model from our web site. It seemed to work fine in Pspice, one of our supported simulators.
    Unfortunately we do not have access to the commercial version of TOPspice and the model has too many nodes to work with the free demo version.

    At this point, we have to do a little guessing on what might be wrong.
    The error message seems to say the subcircuit U23 has a single connection at its (internal) node 7.
    This condition will cause an error in all Spice simulators I know of.
    Looking the associated nodes in Notepad or the Pspice model editor doesn't show any obvious problems.

    Please open the model netlist in TOPspice's model editor.
    Locate the subcircuit femt and confirm the lines in red font below appear as they do here:

    .subckt femt 1 2
    .param nlff = 1
    .param flwf = 22
    .param nvrf = 1.3
    .param glff={pwr(flwf,0.25)*nlff/1164}
    .param rnvf={1.184*pwr(nvrf,2)}
    .MODEL DVNF D KF={PWR(FLWF,0.5)/1E11} IS=1.0E-16
    i2 0 8 10e-3
    d1 7 0 dvnf
    d2 8 0 dvnf
    e1 3 6 7 8 {glff}

    Please look for any extra or missing characters. If anything is different, please try editing the netlist and see if it eliminates the error.
    Please reply to this thread with your findings.

    Regards,
    John