Re: [SI-LIST] : Best type of models, edge rates & load

D. C. Sessions ([email protected])
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:54:43 -0700

"Beal, Weston" wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> Would you please explain your statement, "Actually it would be more accurate
> to get the VT data with out even the
> buffer capacitance." It seems to me that removing capacitance that exists
> is as bad as adding capacitance that doesn't exist.

The objective is to describe, in as much detail as possible, phenomena that
aren't easily calculated such as capacitance. The V/T plots are there to
indicate the predriver behavior, and ANY capacitance hides some of that
information by filtering out high frequencies.

That said, it's probably not worth worrying about. There are second-order
effects (thanks to Miller capacitance) that aren't readily accounted for in
IBIS and which have more effect than small amounts of driver capacitance.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellitz, Richard [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 July, 1999 11:54 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : Best type of models, edge
> rates & load
>
> Actually it would be more accurate to get the VT data with
> out even the
> buffer capacitance. That raises some interesting testing
> problems when it
> comes to determining real Tco. The problem is that the
> behavioral models are
> most accurate when the Tco, VT, and IV is defined at the
> load of the target
> design.
> Richard Mellitz
> Intel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nass [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Best type of models, edge rates &
> load
>
> We are not a foundry, just design the logic and rely on
> the foundry to
> provide
> HSPICE models. No magic with the models just use HSPICE
> models and vary the
> process and temperature.
>
> Weak models are > Slow process, high temp and low voltage
> typical models are > typical process, nominal temp & voltage
> Strong models are > Fast process, low temp and high voltage
>
> I have no control over the accuracy of the HSPICE models,
> they come from
> the
> foundry. I am just curious if any knowledgeable people out
> there have
> definite
> ideas on which parameters are best for generating Tco values
> and IBIS models
> that they have had good results with. I think I hear
> everybody agreeing that
> 40pf is not useful, so then my question is what is useful?
>
> Mark
>
> At 04:58 PM 7/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Mark Nass wrote:
> >>
> >> There has been some discussion recently about
> parameters of parts
> >> specified into 40pf caps and accuracy of models. I
> generate this type
> >> of data for our devices for our own use and our
> customers. So I am
> >> curious as to what people think would be the optimal way
> to generate
> >> Tco, Tsu, jitter parameters and IBIS models so that they
> would be
> confident
> >> they were getting exactly what they needed for signal
> integrity and
> timing
> >> analysis. Any feedback?
> >>
> >> Mark Nass
> >
> >
> >Mark,
> >
> >Can your provide the SI community some insight on how you
> generate these
> >parameters now. Specifically, do you take measurements on
> a number
> >of different samples over temp/voltage ranges and with
> different loads?
> >Are they SPICE derived? Do you specify a certain amount of
> 'cushion'
> >in the parameters? This might be helpful to those of us
> who don't know
> >how vendors derive the numbers.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >David Haedge
> >Raytheon
> >
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