Heya folks, cheers for the feedback - it's been years since I've been in this forum and it's nice to see many of the familiar faces still around
To cover off on some of your suggestions:
* Aye, the freelancer site doesn't seem an encouraging place to do professional engineering unless you really feel that $12 is adequate compensation for 40 hours work! I confess this job was a way to use funds previously uploaded (and I deemed otherwise irretrievable
...and maybe some good will come of it.
* The goal of the exercise (for the students) is:
1. I give them an SMA connector that I've built the Williams pulse generator on. It's a marvellous configuration that costs nothing, *just works* and launches lovely short pulses into whatever transmission line you screw on.
2. From here they can look at the oscilloscope while crushing the coax cables, loosening connectors, transitioning through other adapters, trying different grades of coax, open/short circuits etc. The objective is to implant an intuitive feel for transmission lines and their behaviour.
3. The simulation is actually beyond the class scope (and available time and their present understanding), but I want to be able to wave my hands at a real model with transmission line elements now familiar to them (after their experimentation) and encourage them to see the intellectual connection between the physical and simulation domains (and plant the seed of curiosity). Twiddle numerical parameters, and see the same effects they just observed physically.
* I can't comment on how LTSpice internally uses the published (
https://www.diodes.com/assets/Spice-Models/Discrete-Prodcut-Groups/Avalanche-Transistors.txt) avalanche models, but the supplied model exhibits *remarkable* agreement with what I measured on the workbench. I'm generally of the "Bob Pease spice opinion" group (
https://www.electronicdesign.com/el...5/what-did-bob-pease-really-think-about-spice) so I'm genuinely impressed & gobsmacked!
* I know absolutely nothing about Cadence. Sounds like I've got some reading to do!
Thanks all