Including an Explicit Model of an Inductor in the Simulation of an Amplifier Circuit

Including an Explicit Model of an Inductor in the Simulation of an Amplifier Circuit

When an engineer is designing a new electronic component, like a capacitor or an inductor, the SPICE parameters for that device are not known. They are either extracted from finite element tools, such as COMSOL Multiphysics, or from measurements on a prototype. To speed up the design process it can be convenient to include the finite element model in the SPICE circuit simulation, calculating the device behavior in an actual circuit.

This model takes a simple amplifier circuit and exchanges one of its components with a finite element model of an inductor with a magnetic core. COMSOL Multiphysics calculates the transient behavior of the entire system. A script adds the circuit elements as ODE equations to the inductor model along with the necessary model parameters for the SPICE devices in the circuit.



Plot to the left shows the magnetic flux density, the figure window shows the input signal, output signal, and the inductors voltage as a function of time.


Engineering Fields

  • AC & Quasi-Static Applications

Application Areas

  • Electro- & Magnetostatics

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