Hi Marc, We are working with a small number of IP suppliers now to assist in AMI model development and testing. But pretty much every IP supplier we talk to now either a) has AMI models in development or b) is trying to set up a process to do so. There are also a lot of misconceptions about AMI modeling amongst the IP suppliers, but once they get through that and get underway we have seen some rapid progress. I am expecting the pool of AMI models to increase substantially this year, especially since the pull from the systems companies doing serial link design has consistently been very strong. Thanks, Ken Willis Sigrity, Inc. 860-871-7070 kwillis@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc Humphreys Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:03 PM To: Eric Monteiro; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: IBIS-AMI Vendor Support Help Eric, Its my understanding that Xilinx was the first and currently the only vendor providing AMI models, but that there are a number of vendors to announce availability in the not to distant future. Since the AMI model is wrapped up as a DLL, enabling silicon vendors to model their device behavior anyway they see fit, the tool vendors and their customers are dependent on the silicon vendors to jump on the AMI bandwagon. Once the silicon vendors endorse IBIS-AMI I'm sure the tool vendors will be very willing to work cooperatively with them to develop and support their AMI libraries. If that's not the current state of the market it would be great if the tools/silicon vendors can list their vendors with available AMI libraries - or otherwise timetable ;) Marc ---------------------------------------- From: "Eric Monteiro" <Eric.Monteiro@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:01 AM To: "si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [SI-LIST] IBIS-AMI Vendor Support Help Hello I have been looking at channel designers from Mentor, Cadence, SiSoft, and Sigrity that claim to support AMI models. However, to date I have only seen Sigrity's channel designer support AMI models "out of the box", and can generate the BER curves, and statistical eye's. In the case of Mentor, it looks like they only have special support for the Xilinx models embedded within the kit (? is this correrct ?). I assume this means Mentor does not yet have a tool where you can take any vendors AMI model and just drop into a schematic unless you work with them to develop a kit similar to Xilinx. Does anyone know if/how Mentor (Hyperlynx GHz), Cadence (Signal Explorer), and SiSoft (Quantum Channel Designer) support out of the box AMI models? Best Regards, Eric Gennum Corporation AMS Division 4281 Harvester Road Burlington, Ontario L7L-5M4 Canada Phone: 905-632-2999 x 4260 ________________________________ This communication contains confidential information intended only for the addressee(s). If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete this communication from your mail box. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu