Pspice simulation problem

pspicesimulation

What is a convergence problem? My circuit code is below and when I simulate it is saying that the NMOS transistors MPDA and MPDB are not converging. See the following screenshot:

code and problem

Here's the netlist:

V1 1 0 DC 5V 
V2 2 0 PULSE(0 5 3ns 3ns 3ns 20ns 40ns)
V3 3 0 PULSE(0 5 6ns 3ns 3ns 20ns 40ns)
CL 4 0 0.15PF
MPUA 4 2 1 1 IRF150
MPUB 4 3 1 1 IRF150
MPDA 4 2 5 0 IRF250
MPDB 5 3 0 0 IRF250
.MODEL IRF250 NMOS (level=3 w=4u l=3u vto=1.0 tox=470e-10 nsub=38e14 cj=160e-6 
+cjsw=430e-12 mj=0.5 mjsw=0.33 kp=30e-6)
.MODEL IRF150 PMOS (level=3 w=10u l=3u vto=-1.0 tox=470e-10 nsub=8.7e14 cj=100e-6 
+cjsw=180e-12 mj=0.5 mjsw=0.33 kp=12e-6)
.TRAN 1ns 80ns
.PROBE V(2,0) V(3,0) V(CL) ID(MPDA) ID(MPUA)
.END

Best Answer

I imported the netlist into LTSpice and it worked ok (I only had to rename V(CL) to V(4) in the .PROBE directive, since LTSpice didn't recognize that syntax to specify the voltage across the cap):

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The results of the simulation are shown below:

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Therefore there is nothing inherently wrong with your netlist. Probably the simulation engine of PSPICE didn't succeed to find a solution for the equations. Try to fiddle with the simulation accuracy parameters (I don't use PSPICE, so I cannot help with that).

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