Can you be more specific about what "doesn't fly?" Does it give the wrong answer, or does it just not work? AC coupling should work fine. If it's not proprietary, an actual netlist would help others on the list to understand/debug the problem. Kim On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 01:41 PM, Gil Gafni wrote: > Dear Experts, > We tried lately to simulate AC coupling with HSPICE. > The "real" value of the series capacitor is 10nF, but we realized that > with such a value it will not fly. > We had to use a much smaller value of 1nF to start and get more > reasonable results. > > Any ideas about the phenomena? > Any suggestions on how to overcome this and still use the "real" value? > > Thanks > > > Gil G > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > Kim Helliwell Apple Computer kimgh@xxxxxxxxx 408 974 9936 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu