A.6 Output Functions

The standard output function of MINIMOS-NT can also be used to request complex-valued quantities. The return value of the output function can be passed to any built-in input-deck function, for example arg to get the argument of the complex value.

For output of the various matrix parameters the function outputParam is used. See the following examples for details, which are based on the specifications given in the Solve section. The outputParam functions can be used to request the quantities YMatrix, SMatrix, ZMatrix, HMatrix, AMatrix, and CMatrix. Whereas the first five matrices contains the common complex-valued two-port Y-, S-, Z-, H-, and ABCD-parameters, the last matrix is the real-valued capacitance matrix of the device.

Note that the Z-, H-, and ABCD-parameters are available in combination with the parasitic circuit only (see calcTwoPortParameters in Section 3.5)).

Curve
{
   file = "ac.crv";
   Response
   {
      +IB = output("Device", "I", "BaseContact");
      +IC = output("Device", "I", "CollectorContact");

      +ICac = output("Device", "I", "CollectorContact", ac=yes);

      // intrinsic Y11 and S11:
      +Y11i = outputParam("Device", "YMatrix", "BaseContact", "BaseContact");
      +S11i = outputParam("Device", "SMatrix", "BaseContact", "BaseContact");

      // extrinsic Y11 and S11:
      +Y11  = outputParam("Device", "YMatrix", "BaseContact", "BaseContact", 
                          parasitic=yes);
      +S11  = outputParam("Device", "SMatrix", "BaseContact", "BaseContact", 
                          parasitic=yes);

      // absolute value and argument of S21:
      +S21abs = abs(outputParam("Device", "SMatrix", "CollectorContact", 
                                "BaseContact", parasitic=yes));
      +S21arg = arg(outputParam("Device", "SMatrix", "CollectorContact", 
                                "BaseContact", parasitic=yes));
   }
}