Virtuoso: Value of Capacitances

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Hello
Dear All
I am working on designing Opamp in my course When I started to work with frequency response and I have three questions ( attached two photos one for DC operating and another for Model parameters)
1- The two lists give values for internal capacitances which one should I use?
2- In DC operating list there are capacitances for any MOSFET with negative value what does that mean?
3- for units "aF" does it mean Angstrom unit with 10^(-10) and fF for Femto Farad (10^-15) ??
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MahmoudHassan said:
1- The two lists give values for internal capacitances which one should I use?
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Depends on what for. If you need the total capacitance of a node, use those with double characters: cgg , css ... It's always meant as capacitance against the "0" node, mostly GND .

MahmoudHassan said:
2- In DC operating list there are capacitances for any MOSFET with negative value what does that mean?
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I guess victoriya's answer is the best I've seen.

MahmoudHassan said:
3- for units "aF" does it mean Angstrom unit with 10^(-10) and fF for Femto Farad (10^-15) ??
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The "a" means "atto", which is 10-18, whereas 1 ångström means 10-10 m = 10-4 µm , it is only used as a length unit. femto is correct: f = 10-15 .
 
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