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mmaassel

Post subject: Can I determine Vth for a MOSFET from a Curve Tracer? Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:13 am

Colonel

Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:43 pm

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Good day. This might be a very simple question but I am stuck.

I have setup a curve tracer simulation within SPICE (LTSPICE from Linear Technology). I am just using the generic MOSFET model that comes with LTSPICE.

How can I determine the threshold voltage from the output of the curve tracer?

LTSPICE does allow me to export the data from the curve tracer plot into a form that I can import into an Excel Spreadsheet.

Any suggestions and/or reference material would be greatly appreciated.

Michael

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IR

Post subject: Re: Can I determine Vth for a MOSFET from a Curve Tracer?Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:59 pm

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Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:02 pm

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Hello Michael,

I don't use this kind of Spice. But in general I would say that for MOSFET (Depletion or Enhancement), Vth is the point at which the current starts to ramp up rapidly.

Here is a picture to demonstrate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IvsV_mosfet.png

Hope this helps!

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- IR

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mmaassel

Post subject: Re: Can I determine Vth for a MOSFET from a Curve Tracer?Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:56 am

Colonel

Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:43 pm

Posts: 25

Good day IR.

Thank you very much for the answer and the link.

Michael

Posted  11/12/2012