Germanium diode modeling for sound effect circuit design

Author

Oda, Hirokazu ; Hiroki, Akira ; Sano, Takaaki ; Oyama, Takaya

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

19-20 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This paper describes a germanium diode model for sound effect circuit design. The parameters of the diode model have been investigated by comparing with experimental data. In lower voltage regions, the parameters of the SPICE library have been compared with experimental current voltage characteristics. A diode model with accurate parameters has been proposed. The diode model has been implemented into a circuit simulator. Output waveforms of a distortion circuit have been investigated by comparing with experimental data. It is found that the modeling of the diode in low voltage region is essential in simulating for the distortion circuits.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; germanium; semiconductor device models; semiconductor diodes; SPICE library; circuit simulator; distortion circuits; experimental current voltage characteristics; germanium diode modeling; low voltage region; sound effect circuit design; Current-voltage characteristics; Data models; Germanium; Integrated circuit modeling; Libraries; Operational amplifiers; SPICE; Germanium diode; Sound effect circuit; diode model; distortion circuit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future of Electron Devices, Kansai (IMFEDK), 2014 IEEE International Meeting for

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3614-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMFEDK.2014.6867059

Filename

6867059