Arpad-
I responded to your e-mail will a clear and complete interpretation of
your example- an interpretation, by the way, which concluded that you
were off by a factor of two. I never did get any response to that
e-mail, so maybe it somehow didn't make it into your in-box.
Do I need to resend that e-mail?
Thanks.
Mike S.
On 11/6/2017 11:41 AM, Muranyi, Arpad wrote:
Mike,
I think I gave all that information in my illustration, which is now on
the bottom of this email. Please let me know if that is not clear and
I will try another way…
Thanks,
Arpad
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*From:*ibis-macro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ibis-macro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mike Steinberger
*Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 11:31 AM
*To:* ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [ibis-macro] Re: Question about "impulse response"
Arpad-
Is the 800mV swing a single ended voltage swing or a differential voltage swing? The input signal to the receiver is a differential voltage. If we confuse single ended with differential, we'll be mixing apples and oranges, and end up with a dog's breakfast.
I cannot agree to Todd's interpretation until I get your answer to this question.
Thanks.
Mike Steinberger
On 11/6/2017 11:11 AM, Muranyi, Arpad wrote:
Todd,
Thanks for that clarification. Yes this is with the assumption that
the IR is derived from a step response, but all other methods
would need to provide equivalent results…
Would everyone on this email list agree with Todd’s interpretation?
Thanks,
Arpad
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*From:*Todd Westerhoff [mailto:twesterh@xxxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 10:33 AM
*To:* Muranyi, Arpad <Arpad_Muranyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
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*Subject:* RE: [ibis-macro] Re: Question about "impulse response"
Arpad,
My interpretation is that the channel impulse response passed to
Tx_Init will be the result of differentiating the 800 mV
differential step response, as you say.
That, of course, is assuming that the impulse response is derived
from a step response and not through some other method …
Todd.
*Todd Westerhoff*
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[mailto:ibis-macro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Muranyi, Arpad
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*Subject:* [ibis-macro] Re: Question about "impulse response"
Mike,
I am trying to apply what you are saying to IBIS-AMI. Let’s use
an example in which
the differential Tx buffer has a 400 mV voltage swing on each of
its outputs, and as a
result, the difference step waveform at the Rx goes from -400 mV
to +400 mV (i.e.
the amplitude of the step waveform is 800 mV). The simulator will
differentiate this
step waveform and pass it into the AMI Tx Init function as the
impulse response of
the channel (or convolve with the output of the Tx GetWave
function for the time
domain AMI simulation). Is this the correct interpretation of
“impulse response” in
the IBIS-AMI specification? Or should the 800 mV difference step
waveform be
divided by 2 first before differentiating it to become the
“impulse response” for the
purposes if AMI simulations?
Thanks,
Arpad
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