RE: [SI-LIST] : eye diagram in HSpice

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From: Wilco Hamhuis ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 01:11:24 PST


Hi and a happy new year all,

an other way is to use SystemView from Elanix. You can download a document
from the following webpage: http://www.nesa.com/fch.html. Although it
doesn't describe how to do it, it is still a nice paper about eye-diagrams.

Kind regards,
Wilco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Todd Westerhoff
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 9:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : eye diagram in HSpice
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We were talking about this thread over lunch today (we've had our fun with
> Awaves eye diagrams as well), and realized that there is another, easier
> option for a number of us: just load the waveform data into Cadence's
> SigWave display and switch to eye diagram mode.
>
> If you've used print statements in your Hspice deck to list nodal
> voltages,
> then you can select File->Import->HSPICE in SigWave to read the data from
> the .lis file. SigWave allows you to set the eye diagram period and
> starting offset on the fly, and changes the display accordingly.
>
> SigWave is included as standard part of SPECCTRAQuest. Starting SigWave
> standalone doesn't chew up a SPECCTRAQuest license, so you can still use
> SPECCTRAQuest for other activities while displaying HSpice results.
>
> Todd.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Greim, Michael
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: 'Ricchiuti Vittorio'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : eye diagram in HSpice
>
>
> Hi Vittorio,
>
> This has been discussed many times before on this
> list, and yet it still remains a confusing issue.
> I will try to keep what should be a simple topic
> simple. First cut and past the following into your
> favorite spice deck desiring an eye display
>
> **************** cut here **********************
>
> *****************************************************************
> * Setting up the eye diagram display
> * To display the eye pattern for the simulation, click on t
> * under voltages in awaves and assign it to the x axis.
> * Note that display period is twice the period of the freq
> * specified below.
>
> .param eyefreq=625e6 per='1/eyefreq' $ max toggle lvds rate
> .param Tshift=1.55n
> eT T 0 VOL='((TIME-Tshift)*(eyefreq/2))-int((TIME-Tshift)*(eyefreq/2))'
> rT T 0 1k
> .print tran v(t)
>
> *****************************************************************
>
> ***************** cut here too *******************
>
> What the above does is creates a variable that is used to
> replace the x axis of your display. This variable essentially
> goes from 0 to a time equalling your period and then resets to
> zero. This allows the display to be re-written over and over
> creating the eye. The eyefreq variable is your data rate or
> twice your toggle rate. The above illustrates an eye for a
> 625 MBS signal, or 312.5 Mhz signal. The tshift variable allows
> the eye to be centered in your display. A non-centered eye can
> offer some pretty interesting displays.
>
> If you are in avanwaves click on t or v(t) in the curves window
> Now go down to the current x-axis window and click apply. You
> have now replaced linear time on the x axis with your new variable.
>
> double click on a signal that you wish to see and voila,
> an eye pattern. If you are looking at a clock, this will
> be pretty uninteresting. However, if you are looking at
> the output of a psuedo random pattern driven network you
> should have something that looks like what you see in all
> the high speed articles.
>
>
> I hope that this allows you to get up and running. In the
> beginning I always knew the block of spice to add to my deck,
> just not what to do with it after the simulation was complete.
>
> best regards and happy holidays,
>
> Michael Greim
>
> 'Making the world safe for digital signals anywhere'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricchiuti Vittorio [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : eye diagram in HSpice
>
>
> Hi all.
> I have some problems to display the eye diagram of a pseudorandom
> pattern in
> HSpice simulations. The technique that Avant! appliction note suggests is
> not so good in my opinion.
> Can someone give me informations about this topic and a HSpice deck with
> statements to display eye diagram ?
>
> Regards
> Vittorio
>
> ing. Vittorio Ricchiuti
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