RE: low budget IBIS tools

Hi Rick,

AMP Inc. offers a signal integrity tool called the AMPredictor Signal
Integrity Analyzer. ($8,500 for a single license, $5,000 a piece if
you purchase 3 licenses.) It is a Spice-based pre-layout tool that
includes a complete Spice engine, a 2-D field solver that generates
coupled-lossy transmission line models, connector noise analyzer, and
an IBIS-to-AMPSPICE converter. The software can convert an IBIS data
file to a SPICE-format analog behavior model. It then can be used
with the AMPSPICE engine to perform Spice-based critical net analysis.

There is more information on the website.
www.ampincorporated.com/ampredictor

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From: ram [SMTP:rmcbain@dynavision.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 1997 10:20 PM
To: ibis-users@vhdl.org
Subject: low budget IBIS tools

are there such a thing? I'm doing a 40 Mhz microprocessor design
which
looks like it has some potential problems with the bus layout. I'd
rather not spend the 5 to 50K for modelling tools if I can help it.
 Are
there any lower cost IBIS to spice convertors out there? And is the
conversion accurate (i.e., do you lose information in the conversion
from IBIS to spice), or should I be looking for native-mode tools?

Thanks in advance.

Rick McBain
Senior Engineer
Dynamic Control Syetms Inc.

 
Received on Thu Oct 23 14:59:07 1997