Non-ideal inductors in SPICE

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I need to simulate a non-ideal inductor in SPICE (I'm using LtSpice) so that I can test the saturation behaviour of the inductor. I've used this link: The Arbitrary Inductor model - LTwiki and have been able to make the inductor saturate. But I was wondering if there are any better ways to simulate the saturation as the method in the link is rather simple.

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Did you notice, that the LTSpice help file is referring to two different types of non-linear inductors? The tanh() characteristics discussed in the LTWiki seems to correspond to the simple first varaint. There's however a second built-in model with hysteresis. Other methods from literature are basically available with LTSpice behavioral simulation features.
 
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I did read the about the built in model, but I'm not sure how I implement it and can't seem to find any documentation for using it.

Edit: I've seen the documentation about the second non-linear model. But I don't know how to apply it in LTSpice, as the example uses netlist, but I can't seem to edit the netlist in LTspice.
 
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Lm is specified as 55.8e-3, Lg should be assumed 0. I would also use the typical Hc value from the hysteresis loop, about 35.

I'm curious, if the model is representing the behaviour of the hard magnetic material correctly.
 
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I've been able to get inductor to do what I wanted it to. Thanks for your time and help!
 

I take it this isn't right?


Also, if I was to change the current at which the the inductor saturates how would I achieve this?
 

The curve is a correct result of the rectangular hysteresis curve, I assume. To get a B/H curve, you need to plot integral V against I.
 

You can easily accomplish this in PSpice. In PSpice you can model core, to support BH curve non linearity, saturation, effect of air gap etc.
 

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