Re: low budget IBIS tools

From: D. C. Sessions <dc.sessions@tempe.vlsi.com>
Date: Mon Oct 27 1997 - 08:40:56 PST

fabrizio zanella wrote:
>
> Andy, I agree 100% with your comments. IBIS models are a great idea, but
> until an IBIS to SPICE converter is available to the general public, most
> of us will not be able to use IBIS models. The availability of an IBIS to
> SPICE converter will spread the use of IBIS models, which is what this
> group's goal is. So either the major simulator companies or a university
> group need to create such a tool.
> The spice to IBIS converter is not a good idea if we are trying to create
> better models that are based on measurements.

Another aspect: as I observed some time ago, for those of us using
SPICE sims to generate IBIS models an IBIS->SPICE translator would
also allow us to QA the IBIS models by translation back with
subsequent correlation.

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D. C. Sessions
dc.sessions@tempe.vlsi.com
 
Received on Mon Oct 27 08:47:44 1997

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