RE: [SI-LIST] : modeling languages (was: receiver jitter)

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From: Muranyi, Arpad ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 11:59:36 PST


Kumar, and everyone,

I would also add the .MEASURE statements to your list in #2.

I am using HSPICE, and their .MEASURE statements are pretty good
compared with other SPICE flavors (in some of which it doesn't exist).
Yet there are a lot of measurement types that you can't do, or just very
painfully. For example: try measuring a non-monotonic signal crossing a
certain voltage threshold region for the last time for each edge of a
multi-cycle simulation. Painful! And the list could go on...

Arpad Muranyi
Intel Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: C. Kumar [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : modeling languages (was: receiver jitter)

Folks:

There seems to be lots of misunderstanding and
confusion over spice, modeling etc. Let me add my
comments. Hopefully it will not add to the confusion.

1. IBIS should remain as a data standard. It should
not be going in the direction of "node description
language" because one already exists viz spice. It is
powerful, flexible and time tested. No good will come
out of reinventing the wheel. IBIS should be focusing
on things like adding thing time-current curves which
will aid greatly SSN modeling and resolve the silly
ambiguties inherent in time-voltage curves.

Fir die/pkg/connectors the langauage to store and pull
in appropriate subcircuits should be standardized at
the cad tool level.

2. Some crucial element types in spice need to be
standardized/added.

For starters a IBIS behavior block element needs to be
added/standardized.

Coupled lossy transmission line elements
added/standardized.

A class of controlled current/voltage sources needs to
be standardized. These sources lie at the heart of a
circuit simulator and the present selection available
in most spice simulators is both unncessarily varied
(like CCVS CCCS etc etc) and yet insuffficient.

3. If item 2 is addressed anything can be modeled.
period. Things like receiver models become merely
standardized subcircuits which will show the same
behavior in different simulators.

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