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On 6/14/2024 12:33 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:18:23 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> "john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:8epo6jhf5k5nbkkqp5ot9b6nq1lhoia870@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:08:56 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:hilo6j9dgctalpiu4v09rpdavf6fetm1cv@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:25:37 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in message news:v4f2nm$2augj$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>> One option John Larjkin doesn't seem to have explored is using Renesas HFA3096 five transistor array as basis for his
>>>>>>> mononstable
>>>>>>> and level shifter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It offers three 8GHz NPN parts and two 5.5GHz PNP parts in a single array.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/hfa3046-hfa3096-hfa3127-hfa3128-datasheet?r=494216
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I put the NPN model parameters into a circuit designed by yourself.
>>>>>> It's late now but I got as far as Time step too small.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is neither fast nor a monostable.
>>>>
>>>> Yes ok it's an astable and certainly not intended to be fast.
>>>> It was intended only to see if the model worked. Nothing more.
>>>
>>> It doesn't work!
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's no reason to use many-GHz parts in micropower circuits. One
>>>>> reason is that the sim breaks.
>>>
>>> Most versions of the HFA3046 are obsolete. The only one left at
>>> Digikey costs $12. It would be risky to design around that part.
>>
>> If it's obsolete or going obsolete then yes it would make no sense to use it.
>> I would guess that you get to do plenty of work because a manufacturer has suddenly decided to discontinue a part.
>>
>>> Wasn't  HFA originally a Harris part?
>>>
>>> There are lots of dual (non-monolithic) diodes and bipolars and fets
>>> around, but the monolithic arrays are mostly gone.
>>
>> What part would you recommend (single or dual) and does it have a working LTSpice model?
> 
> Just pull up some parts from the standard library, some low current
> NPNs like BC547 maybe. Look for low capacitances if you care about
> that; the HFAs are good in that respect.
> 
> Why do people avoid making clean 4-wire connections on schematics?

There's this new trend of breaking the circuit schematic up into little 
boxes like this, it's nuts:

<https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/hadimg_desrev_ltc4040_6.png>