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In this article we will learn the ways on how to Sweep
sweep temperature in LTSpice. In voltage, Temperature
current and resistance sweeping you need to in LTSpice
declare a certain parameter inside curly with Step by
braces. In temperature sweeping you don’t Step

have to. When a temperature sweep is used, Tutorials

How Much
LTSpice automatically vary the properties of
Savings on
components with respect to desired
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 temperatures. For instance, the forward Refrigerator

voltage of a diode will change over different compared to

temperatures, the VBE of transistors, the Traditional

Refrigerator?
RDSon of MOSFET and so on. The mostly
How to
affected components are semiconductor as we
Know if
know they are more heat sensitive than
MOSFET is
passive devices like resistors, inductors and
Defective
capacitors. How to
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First Method on How to Capacitors -
Selecting
Sweep Temperature in
Capacitor
LTSpice Rating
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.temp temp1 temp2 temp3 … Converter
Design
Where temp1, temp2 and temp3 are the Tutorial
specific temperatures Snubber
Circuit Design
Example: In below circuit, the temperature is Analysis
to be varied to 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, SURGE

90 and 100’C. PROTECTION

CIRCUIT
PRINCIPLE
and DESIGN
How to
We are going to monitor the waveform of Vout
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what is the impact by running a transient
Inductor for
command. Boost
Converter
1. Press keyboard letter “T” to show the LED Driver
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 spice directive. Do not forget to tick the Circuit
“Spice directive”. Otherwise, your inputs Explained

will be treated as comment only and it will and Available

Solutions
not run. Enter the same thing as below in
the spice directive window.

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You can simply click this icon to display the Posts
spice directive window.
How to
2. The next step is to setup a transient Design Over

command. Temperature
Protection

Click on “Simulate” icon bar then “Edit Circuit

Simulation Cmd” to show the Transient What are the

section. In this particular example we are Common

using a transient command. You can use Uses of a P-

Channel
other commands in conjunction with the
MOSFET
temperature sweep.
How to

3. Run the Simulation. To run, simply go to Calculate

MOSFET
“Simulate” then press “Run”.
Power
Dissipation
Below is the simulation result when the “Start
external DC supply voltages at 0V” is ticked, How to

the simulation will start from zero and the Compute

MOSFET
ramping or rising of the waveforms will be
Conduction
shown. When “Start external DC supply
Loss
voltages at 0V” is unticked, the waveform will
How to Get
only show the steady state.
MOSFET
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RDSon Value

Second Method on
Sweping Temperature in
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.step temp list temp1 temp2 temp3 …

Where temp1, temp2 and temp3 are the

desired temperatures. Actually, the outcome of
this method is the same with the first method.
Apply the steps in the first method but this
time use the above syntax.

Third Method on
Sweeping Temperature in
LTSpice

.step temp initialtemp finaltemp interval

The third way on how to sweep temperature in

LTSpice is by using the so called linear
sweeping.
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 This is the preferred way of sweeping wider
temperature ranges. Instead of doing
temperature listing such as in method 1 and 2,
you can do it like this.

To simulate the example using this method,

just follow same procedures with the first
method but use the specified syntax above.
You can get the same result as illustrated
below.

To summarize, there are three methods on

how to sweep temperature in LTSpice. You
can use any of these in your simulation. You
may be interested also on how to sweep
voltage, current and resistance in LTSpice.

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 4 comments

kyle says:
April 10, 2015 at 12:41 AM

Hey, thank you for this great article. Only now i

know that it’s possible to sweep temperature
in LTSpice. I have a question, will the circuit
operation change when I sweep temperature
from 0 to 70’C?

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electronicsbeliever says:
April 10, 2015 at 12:46 AM

Kyle, thank you.

If the circuit is composed of
semiconductors, yes the effect is significant
because semiconductor properties changes
when temperature is more than 25’C.
However if the circuit is passive like
resistor, capacitors and inductors, the effect
is not that big because passive devices has
higher temperature stability than
semiconductors.

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 Tuan Anh Tran says:
March 2, 2017 at 10:33 PM

Hello,
I am trying to simulate the temperature sweep
in the temperature sensor circuit. The core
problem is that it is not possible to simulate
the temperature sweep by the different in
voltage of one element within the circuit only.
Because we use this way the LTSpice will
understand that you are gonna change the
temperature of the whole circuit. But my
indication is to simulate the output voltage
based on the different temperature of one
element in the whole circuit (for example
diode,…)

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S Banerjee says:
September 10, 2021 at 7:26 PM

Use like this directive to get plots w.r.t.

temperature:
.dc temp 0 100 5

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