EE 3950 Chapter : The Ideal Diode Model
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The ideal diode model with: i i= i. One way to analyze junction diode circuits is simply to assume the junction diodes are ideal. We know how to analyze ideal diode circuits (recall sect. Make sure you analyze the resulting circuit precisely as we did in section 3. 1. You assume the same ideal diode modes, you enforce the same ideal diode values, and you check the same ideal diode results, precisely as before. Once we replace the junction diodes with ideal diodes, we have an ideal diode circuit no junction diodes are involved! However, the answers, albeit incorrect, will be close to the actual values. In other words, our answers will be approximately correct. We approximate a junction diode as an ideal diode. For example, if using the ideal diode model we find that current i i= > , then the diode voltage determined will be. Of course, the exact solution will be some value.
