Hello AMI experts, The discussion over the AMI Booleans at the end of today's ATM teleconference prompted me to write this message. First, two quotes from the existing IBIS specification. Page 144 says: | Note that if Init_Returns_Impulse | is set to "False", then Getwave_Exists MUST be set to "True". and page 145 says: | If Use_Init_Output is False, GetWave_Exists must be True. To make my notation simpler, I will abbreviate the names of the Booleans to GWE for GetWave_Exists, UIO for Use_Init_Output and IRI for Init_Returns_Impulse. Also, a "===" indicates "must be". So this is what the current spec says today: If IRI = F then GWE === T If UIO = F then GWE === T From these we can write the following truth tables: -------- IRI GWE -------- F T T T T F -------- -------- UIO GWE -------- F T T T T F -------- From this we can see that when GWE = F the only possible value for UIO or IRI is T. So the sentence I put into my BIRD draft: |* Note that if GetWave_Exists |* is set to "False", then both Use_Init_Output and |* Init_Returns_Impulse MUST be set to "True". is in complete agreement with the existing specification, and does NOT introduce any new features. The only question that remains comes from the fact that UIO is not a required parameter. However, the current specification also states on p. 145 that | Use_Init_Output is optional. The default value for this | parameter is "True". Which means that if UIO is not present, it is the same thing as if it was present with a value of T. This condition will still satisfy the rule I wrote into the BIRD draft. So I would like to see proof for why the above statement in my BIRD draft changes anything in the existing spec or introduces any new features to it. Any comments? (Quick replies would be appreciated). Thanks, Arpad =================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- IBIS Macro website : http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/macromodel_wip/ IBIS Macro reflector: //www.freelists.org/list/ibis-macro To unsubscribe send an email: To: ibis-macro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: unsubscribe