In an earlier message I wrote: >I have written some simple C code that can generate plane models >equivalent to the ones in sqpi for use with hspice with any arbritrary >meshing. Models with very dense meshing can be very expensive in >terms of compute time. As an experiment I generated a 208x208 mesh plane model. Just to read it into Hspice (2001.2) without even doing any simulation at all took 1398 seconds ( ~23 minutes) on a 440 MHz Ultra-10 workstation. Had this model been used for a simulation it would have been able to simulate a board 10ft 3in square accurately to 1 GHz (or a much smaller board to a much higher frequency). What's it prove? Not much except to point out that very large models consume lots of computer resources, and that users need to make intelligent choices on how detailed of a model makes sense for any particular application...... -Ray Anderson Sun Microsystems Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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