Hi everyone, As I hope you're aware, the IBIS Advanced Technology Modeling (IBIS-ATM) task group has been working to define a modeling standard for Serdes RX/TX models that will provide interoperability across EDA tools and IP vendor models. This group has been working on a proposal for modeling SerDes equalization and clock recovery behavior using "executable" models that conform to a standardized calling interface. The proposal addresses how models are loaded and executed, how waveform data is passed to/from the model and how model-specific control settings are managed. These models are known as IBIS Algorithmic Modeling Interface (IBIS-AMI) models. The proposal is now IBIS BIRD 104, which was recently submitted to the IBIS Open Forum for discussion. The current proposal is jointly authored by Agilent, Cadence, Intel, Mentor, SiSoft and Teraspeed. You can find detailed information on the task group's efforts on-line: http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/ibis/macromodel_wip/ SiSoft has recently updated its free "IBIS-AMI Evaluation Toolkit" to include a random stimulus generator and make simulation output data easier to load into commercial waveform display tools. You can download the latest version of the toolkit here:. http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/ibis/macromodel_wip/archive/20071016/sisoft/SiSoft_IBIS-AMI_Eval_Toolkit _v2_00.zip The toolkit is posted as a .zip file that contains a basic simulation tool, a sample 4-tap Tx model (both executable and source code), along with sample data and basic documentation. Executables are provided for both Windows and Linux platforms. You can use this toolkit to perform analyses with the channel data provided, or you can substitute data for your own channel design. If you want to perform analyses on your own designs, you'll need to be able to characterize your channel designs independently and create an impulse response in the format required by the toolkit. The toolkit is provided free by SiSoft; you are welcome to use it as you wish, subject to the conditions laid out in the "license.txt" file. We have established the mailer ibis-ami-toolkit@freelists.org for discussions about SiSoft's toolkit and toolkits to follow from other EDA vendors. You can join the ibis-ami-toolkit mailer by sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject line to ibis-ami-toolkit-subscribe@freelists.org . You can also join the discussion group through the following URL: http://www.freelists.org/list/ibis-ami-toolkit Future releases of SiSoft's toolkit will be announced on the ibis-ami-toolkit mailer. Any comments are welcome and greatly appreciated; we will gauge updates to the kit based on the feedback we receive. Thanks for your interest, and happy modeling! Todd. Todd Westerhoff VP, Software Products SiSoft 6 Clock Tower Place, Suite 250 Maynard, MA 01754 (978) 461-0449 x24 twesterh@sisoft.com www.sisoft.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------------------------------------------------------------- |For help or to subscribe/unsubscribe, e-mail majordomo@eda-stds.org |with the appropriate command message(s) in the body: | | help | subscribe ibis <optional e-mail address, if different> | subscribe ibis-users <optional e-mail address, if different> | unsubscribe ibis <optional e-mail address, if different> | unsubscribe ibis-users <optional e-mail address, if different> | |or e-mail a request to ibis-request@eda-stds.org. | |IBIS reflector archives exist under: | | http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/ibis/email_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/ibis/users_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/ibis/email/ E-mail since 1993Received on Wed Oct 17 19:56:55 2007
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