I have an engineer who wants a detailed model of a via. Mostly he is looking for capacitance. The part of the system he is working on runs at less than 5 MHz. The via is blind, with the closed end of the via ending fairly close to a ground plane. __ __ Top Pad ________ ][ _____ Reference layer ][ ---------][----- routing layer 1 ---------][----- routing layer 2 ________ ][ _____ Reference layer ][ ---------][----- routing layer 3 ---------][----- routing layer 4 ________ ][ _____ Reference layer ][ ---------][----- routing layer 5 ---------][----- routing layer 6 __][__ Bottom pad, end of via _________________ Reference layer, at center of stackup the same stackup reversed. My questions: 1. Can one analyze this in HSPICE? 2. Does anyone have a spice deck with anywhere near a starting point, that they can share. The vendor support engineer could not come up with anything helpful. Thanks, dav0 David Lieby Siemens Medical, USD, MVIS-S ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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