why are manufacturers' spice models always so bad
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not in terms of accuracy but in terms of simulability, they always seem to have discontinuities in at least the first derivative if not the i-v relationship itself, tons of b sources with conditionals and nonsense like taht
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this means that trying to simulate a silicon carbide fet or even a bog-standard silicon igbt is near impossible unless you make your own model (which takes a lot of time and care) because all the models have convergence problems
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or they start contaminating everything with 1. or 1.
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