From e9e621de0717d592c06654d0ddfb06e7ce7d71f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Vogt <holger.vogt@uni-due.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:05:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] remove effective channel length, replace by l

---
 src/spicelib/devices/vdmos/vdmosload.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/spicelib/devices/vdmos/vdmosload.c b/src/spicelib/devices/vdmos/vdmosload.c
index 5aa6bd1cb..b032214fb 100644
--- a/src/spicelib/devices/vdmos/vdmosload.c
+++ b/src/spicelib/devices/vdmos/vdmosload.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ VDMOSload(GENmodel *inModel, CKTcircuit *ckt)
     VDMOSinstance *here;
     double Beta;
     double DrainSatCur;
-    double EffectiveLength;
     double SourceSatCur;
     double arg;
     double cbhat;
@@ -100,8 +99,6 @@ VDMOSload(GENmodel *inModel, CKTcircuit *ckt)
              * here.  They may be moved at the expense of instance size
              */
 
-            EffectiveLength = here->VDMOSl - 2 * model->VDMOSlatDiff;
-
             if ((here->VDMOStSatCurDens == 0) ||
                 (here->VDMOSdrainArea == 0) ||
                 (here->VDMOSsourceArea == 0)) {
@@ -115,7 +112,7 @@ VDMOSload(GENmodel *inModel, CKTcircuit *ckt)
                     here->VDMOSm * here->VDMOSsourceArea;
             }
             Beta = here->VDMOStTransconductance * here->VDMOSm *
-                here->VDMOSw / EffectiveLength;
+                here->VDMOSw / here->VDMOSl;
 
             /*
              * ok - now to do the start-up operations