SYNOPSIS

ngmultidec [ options... ]

DESCRIPTION

ngmultidec writes an ngspice input file to standard output which describes a sub-circuit for coupled lines using uncoupled simple lossy lines.

Each generated subcircuit models a 4-conductor transmission line with the following parameters: length l, line capacitance c, line resistance r, line conductance g, inductive_coeff_of_coupling k, inter-line capacitance cm, length l. Derived parameters are: lm, ctot. The values of l, c, the model name, the number of conductors and the length of the line must be specified.

It is important to note that the model is a simplified one - the following assumptions are made: 1. The self-inductance l, the self-capacitance ctot (note: not c), the series resistance r and the parallel capacitance g are the same for all lines, and 2. Each line is coupled only to the two lines adjacent to it, with the same coupling parameters cm and lm. The first assumption implies that edge effects have to be neglected. The utility of these assumptions is that they make the sL+R and sC+G matrices symmetric, tridiagonal and Toeplitz, with useful consequences (see the paper referenced below).

It may be noted that a symmetric two-conductor line is represented accurately by this model.

Standard C language scientific (exponent) notation may be used for options' numeric values.

OPTIONS

-osubcircuit_name

Set the subcircuit name

-lline_inductance

Set the line inductance.

-cline_capacitance

Set the line capacitance.

-rline_resistance

Set the line resistance.

-gline_conductance

Set the line conductance.

-kinductive_coefficient_of_coupling

Set the value of the inductive coefficient of coupling, whose absolute value k must be less than 1.0.

-xline-to-line-capacitance

Set the line-to-line capacitance.

-Llength

Set the length of the line.

-nnumber

Set the number of conductors.

-u

Write a usage message to standard error.

EXAMPLE

ngmultidec -n4 -l9e9 -c20e-12 -r5.3 -x5e12 -k0.7 -otest -L5.4 > test.cir