LT-spice astable oscillator with inverter

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Jérémaguila

Joined Mar 9, 2023
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Hello everyone,
I'm a beginner in Ltspice and i'm trying to simulate an astable oscillator (It's a pulse oscillator) base on a electrical circuit i found on internet.
The circuit is the following:
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It's base on inverter and the period is approximately R1*C1.
I tried to simulate it using classical component in the LTspice library but the oscillation aren't starting and i obtain 0V at the output?
Here is my Ltspice circuit:
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I build the invertor with the classic nmos and pmos of Ltspice
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I hope you can help me with this issu
Thanks in advance for your time
kind regards
jeremie perque
 

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crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Below is the sim for the circuit with corrected errors and some modifications:
(I didn't use your inverter symbols.)
  1. Removed VCC (not connected or needed)
  2. Used real MOSFET models in place of the defaults (which can be flaky)
  3. Removed C1 and R2 (not needed)
  4. Added uic option to transient command (below) as simulated oscillators often don't start without that--
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Jérémaguila

Joined Mar 9, 2023
8
Thanks a lot for your answer and your time, it help me a lot. I will try your model.
By the way I retry the circuit using a more realistic model for NMOS and PMOS as you suggest and the oscillations started
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Here are the MOS i used
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I obtained some pulse oscillations:
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So, maybe the inverter was to perfect to make the oscillations start.

Thanks again
Kind regard
 
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