Electronics Forum / CAD / July 2007

I am trying to model a current clamp in Spice based on a mathematical
model which uses frequency dependent inductances.

I have seen various articles on using Laplace code blocks for
frequency dependent expressions, but these don't seem to behave
properly when in circuit for AC sweeps,
and I have tried passing parameters to the inductor value but these
only seem to work in AC or Transient not both.

What I am hoping to achieve is an inductor whose inductance is
selected from a look up table based on the instantaneous frequency of
the stimulating waveform.

I have included an example netlist below to show the solution I am
trying to get working.
NB I am using ICAP4 which insists on Laplace functions being
denominator loaded hence the use of "1/s" rather than just "s" to
extract the frequency.

V1 1 0 AC=1
L1 1 2 (v(5))
R1 2 0 1k

B1 103 0 V=v(1)
A1 103 104 LAPLACEA1
.MODEL LAPLACEA1 s_xfer( in_offset=0 gain=1 num_coeff=[0 1]
den_coeff=[1 0] denorm_freq=1)
A2 104 105 TABLEA2
.MODEL TABLEA2 Pwl( xy_array=[<< Table of F v L >>] input_domain=.01
fraction=true)
R2 105 0 1
.END

When I run the above sort of circuit in AC mode it seems to calculate
L at the start of the run and keep it constant.
I need a model that will work in both AC and TRAN as the intention is
to replicate results from a network analyser to validate the circuit
model against an actual device and then perform TRAN runs to examine
the time domain response under varying conditions.