Drive-on-demand

From: D.C. Sessions <dc.sessions@philips.com>
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 11:26:49 PDT

Need to double-check this. It seems that there are standard
logic components which, on output, sense the output voltage
and adjust drive current in response.

No, I don't mean bus hold. These parts drive LOW hard when
the output voltage is above a certain threshold and cut the
drive when the output is below that threshold. Rising-edge
drive is similar.

Yes, I know that this is of dubious stability. Nobody asked
me if they should do it this way, but the manufacturers want
to make this a JEDEC standard and I'm trying to help them
put together an IBIS model. Which, as far as I can tell, is
possible using

Submodel_type Bus_hold

and having negative currents in the [Pulldown] and [Pullup]
tables.

1) Have I missed a better way to do this?
2) Will this be legal?
3) Will this break EDA tools?

-- 
D. C. Sessions
ibis@lumbercartel.com
 
Received on Thu Aug 31 11:29:39 2000

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