Hi all, Can anyone suggest how to vary the overlap length of two parallel interconnects using Transmission lines abd 2-D FSM in spice. I have simulated this but I cannot vary the overlap length the file is attached. Thanks in advance. Jayanta -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -- File: inv_trans2.spice -- Desc: inv_trans2.spice *simulation for observing behavior of dual conductor transmission line .OPTION scale=0.1u .OPTION POST **a piece wise linear input waveform is used to model a step input V1 in0 GND pwl 5n 0v 5.06n sp, 14.94n sp, 15.0n 0v V2 in1 GND pwl 5n 0v **V1 in1 gnd PULSE (0 5 2NS 0NS 0NS 50NS 100NS) **V1 in1 gnd SIN (0 5 1MEG) **W type transmission line state ment with driver side in1 and gnd and reciever side ** out1 and ground, Field Solver(FSmodel) model is defined below, number of conductors ** is N=1 length of the wire is l=500*scale(0.1um) W1 in0 in1 GND out0 out1 GND FSmodel=mymodel1 N=2 l=500 **Output Capacitance C1 out0 GND 10fF C2 out1 GND 10fF .PARAM sp=3.3v **Model for solving equations and calculating RLGC values and writing them in RLGC **file specified by OUTPUTFORMAT, RLGCFILE is the file name ORIGIN is the **co-ordinates of signal type conductor MATERIAL, which is the metal. **The co-ordinates are in X and Y direction Z is in the length direction. **X is the width and spacing between conductors and Y is the height of the left **bottom corner of the conductor from bottom left of the ground metal PEC .MODEL mymodel1 W MODELTYPE=FieldSolver LAYERSTACK=mystack FSOPTIONS=myoption + RLGCFILE=test3.rlgc OUTPUTFORMAT=RLGCFILE CONDUCTOR=( SHAPE=myshape, + ORIGIN=(0, 3000), MATERIAL=mymetal) CONDUCTOR=( SHAPE=myshape, +ORIGIN=(150, 3000), MATERIAL=mymetal) **mymetal has the characteristics of copper .MATERIAL mymetal METAL CONDUCTIVITY=57.6meg **dielectric has the characteristic of some example dielectric from manual .MATERIAL mydiel DIELECTRIC LOSSTANGENT=1.2e-3 **Shape is Rectangle with width 5micron, height 1micron, NW=30 is number **of discretization in the width and NH=10 is same for height .SHAPE myshape RECTANGLE WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=10 NW=30 NH=10 **LAYERSTACK is the stack of dielectric or metal layers associated with transmission **line, here it is a stack of default type metal named PEC and a dielectric ** specified by Material is used as dielectric.Thickness of PEC is 1um and thickness **of dielectric is 299um and background is AIR .LAYERSTACK mystack BACKGROUND=AIR LAYER=(PEC, 10) LAYER=(mydiel, 2990) **Options for Field Solver model is defined GRIDFACTOR, which is multipled with **number of discretization specified in shape, PRINTDATA to print the datas **COMPUTEGD to calculate the conductance matrix Gd for rotation of dipoles under **the influence of alternating electric field, COMPUTERS computes skin effect **Resistance matrix Rs .FSOPTIONS myoption ACCURACY=HIGH GRIDFACTOR=1 PRINTDATA=YES COMPUTEGD=YES + COMPUTERS=YES .TRAN 0.01n 20u .end ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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