[SI-LIST] Using Matlab for SERDES simulations

  • From: "Zanella, Fabrizio" <fzanella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "SI List" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:33:28 -0400

In the past couple of years, several vendors have moved from Hspice to
Matlab as the tool of choice for simulations of their SERDES devices.
With the Matlab tool it's possible to run simulations of channels
including decision feedback equalization (DFE), which is present in the
latest SERDES devices to minimize reflections and provide continuous
equalization while traffic is running.  Using Matlab as a channel
simulator also provides BER contour plots, bathtub curves, etc.  
The required models for the channels are S-parameter files in Touchstone
format.  The SERDES models are embedded in the simulator, so no models
are provided to the customer.

 

What are the thoughts of the SI community on where this trend is going?
Will EDA tool vendors begin to integrate Matlab into their simulators?
And how does this impact the effort to create macromodels for SERDES
devices?

 

Thanks and regards,

Fabrizio Zanella

Enterasys Networks

 

 


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