Hi Srivats, Thank you for your reply. I am trying the LMG now. It works great till I use sublossline to include the dielectric loss. There are two options --lossy wideband and lossy narrowband. If I choose wideband, the transient sim doesn't run and error says the circuit is unstable. The narrowband model works but it is not what I want. I want the performance from DC to the fmax, not only one frequency. I wonder if you have seen this problem before. Any way we can solve this problem? Thank you very much. regards, Linda >From: Srivats Partha <vats123@xxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: vats123@xxxxxxxxx >To: lindazhang_si@xxxxxxxxxxx, si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Using W-element in Spectre >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:47:11 -0700 (PDT) > >Hello Linda >I had a similar problem, Instead there are two things I think you could do >1) There is a tool called LMG in cadence that generates the RLCG matrix >for a given geometry. So take the geometry from your WLINE model plug it >into this tool and it will give you the corresponding RLGC values. Than you >should highlight "use external model file" in the MTLINE dialog box. Once >that is done you have to plug that file generated by this tool that has the >RLGC matrix into your MTLINE model.It looks like the MTLINE can only >understand that and not the wline model directly. > >2) You can look at the in the Spectre RF documentation under the heading >"Modeling transmission lines" they give you a step by step procedure on how >to use this tool do the simulations.Once thats done you can compare the >frequency response of you wline model and this model generated by LMG to >confirm . Also be sure to plug in the loss tangent values correctly. You >could also use a 2D solver to compare the results. > >I found this tool very good and the results obtained were comparable to the >wline model.hope this helps > >srivats >--- > >Linda Zhang <lindazhang_si@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, > >Does anyone know how to use W-element model (generated from Apsim RLGC) in >Cadnece Spectre. I tried using 'mtline', but I am not sure what format the >'RLGC data file' should be. I can put in the numbers of 'R/L/G/C matrix per >unit length' manually. It runs but the result is strange. I don't know if I >can trust it. > >Did anyone use it before? Thank you in advance. > >Linda > >_________________________________________________________________ >Don�t just search. Find. 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