Hi, Abe: Tried the SIF file in one of my prelayout simulation and it works. Thanks a lot for your tip. Regards Perry Abe Riazi wrote: > Hi Perry: > > To my understanding in order to produce an eye pattern providing comprehensive > SI and timing data at the input of a receiver, it is often necessary to apply > a pseudo- > random bit pattern at the output of the the driver. > > Use of .sif file with RANDOM option provides a simple way of accomplishing > this objective in XTK simulations. The XTK/TLC manual states, " By using > the RANDOM option, each edge defined by the PERIOD, %HIGH and CYCLES > statements uses a random bit to determine if the edge will be rising or > falling > The first cycle is always RISING then FALLING." > > It is interesting to note that the pattern produced by the .sif RANDOM > feature repeats after a 2**32 cycles so that the bit pattern is pseudo-random. > > It should be also noted that sometimes a very large CYCLES number is > desirable to achieve most accurate eye diagrams. In the example .sif file > given > in my previous post, the number of CYCLES was set at 200. I have also > used cycles numbers exceeding several thousands but the draw back > is that simulation speed is then significantly reduced. > > Regards, > > Abe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Perry Qu [SMTP:Perry.Qu@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:09 PM > To: 'si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: A question about XTK > > Thanks, Abe. What exactly is "Random" option trying to accomplish ? Does it > give us > the random bit pattern ? > > I tried the "eye diagram" option in the new XTK/Eplanner on UNIX without > using SIF. > The "eye" does not look as expected as what we have in HSPICE, where a > user-defined > PRBS excitation is used. > > Regards > > Perry > > Abe Riazi wrote: > > > Perry Qu Wrote: > > > > Hi, Abe: > > > > I'm interested to know how to do this in SIF also. Could you give a short > > example showing the syntax in SIF to generate a pseudo-random bit pattern ? > > I'm > > interested in this mainly for pre-layout simulation in scratchpad. > > > > THanks > > > > Perry > > > > > > > > > Hi Perry: > > > > Here is an example .sif file utilizing the RANDOM option: > > > > Netname PERIOD: 10 %HIGH 50 CYCLES: 200 RANDOM OFFSET: 0.0 JTTER: 0.0 > > > > Using a recent Nutcracker version of XTK (on a Windows NT > > platform), I have been able to select any driver of the net and then > > produce an eye pattern at the input of a desired receiver. As noted in my > > ea rlier post, the eye pattern can reveal information related to ringback, > > jiiter, > > min/max slew rates, source synchronous timing, etc. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Abe Riazi > > ServerWorks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > -- Perry Qu SDN D & Q | 600 March Road Alcatel Canada | Ottawa, ON K2K 2E6, Canada DID: (613) 7846720 | FAX: (613) 5993642 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu