> ... However, there are some folks out there who may > be interested in how the bus floats, i.e. what will the > voltage on a bus be when all buffers are in the high impedance > state. In this case even these small currents become important. > Would you really trust that? Under suitable conditions, yes! If a bus is supposed to float a certain way, say because one of the devices has weak pull-ups in it, then these "leakage" currents probably are in the high uA to low mA range. I probably can depend on that, as much as I could on a 5k pull-up resistor. For many digital circuits, leakage in the nA range would be in the noise and can't be counted on to consistently pull the bus a certain way. But it's not inconceivable. You just need to know where and what all your current paths are. Many analog folks are OK with currents in the pA's. Muranyi makes a good point, as I was hinting at, that the model creator shouldn't second-guess his customers by assuming they don't care about such low currents. With an IBIS model, zeroing the leakage currents or truncating the tables between GND and VCC, sends a message to the model user that the device is really this ideal or perfect. If anything, it might have been better to load up the tables with the worst-case data sheet values (say, +10 uA in the max column and -10 uA in the min column), even if the SPICE model behavior is much smaller. Regards, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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