Todd, Thank you for correcting me, and I apologize for the mis-statement. It was not intentional. After your last posting I did find the .ami file in your toolkit and I agree, it does indeed follow the IBIS-AMI specification. What mislead me was that the batch files that come with the toolkit seem to make no use of that .ami file, and as a consequence I never experimented with using it... Thanks, Arpad ==================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Todd Westerhoff [mailto:twesterh@sisoft.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:43 AM To: Muranyi, Arpad Cc: ibis-users@eda.org Subject: Re: [IBIS-Users] IBIS - AMI - questions Arpad, Your statement "The SiSoft example uses a "proprietary" CSV file format for entering the parameters" is incorrect. I can see how you might think that if you hadn't read the kit doc completely, but the statement is still incorrect. The .ami file included in the SiSoft kit is a full and proper .ami file. The utility ami2csv is used to convert the .ami data to the .csv format that the standalone simulator uses. Thus, the use model is intended to be: .ami file --> ami2csv --> standalone simulation test bench Yes, the standalone simulator does not read the .ami file directly ... no one ever promised that it would. Nonetheless, the SiSoft toolkit provides a defined mechanism for utilizing compliant .ami files. 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 Muranyi, Arpad wrote: > Anand, > > The only examples I am aware of on the web are the > SiSoft and Cadence AMI evaluation tool kits. > > These have a Tx and an Rx model, including their > source code, and an executable which will let you > run them. There is no IBIS file there, since as > I told you before, there is really not much in an > IBIS file other than a pointer. > > http://www.vhdl.org/pub/ibis/macromodel_wip/archive/20080523/sisoft/SiSo > ft_IBIS-AMI_Eval_Toolkit_v2_10.zip > http://www.vhdl.org/pub/ibis/macromodel_wip/archive/20080523/cadence/Cad > ence_IBIS_AMI_Evaluation_Toolkit_v2_1a.zip > > Unfortunately these examples do not have a "healthy" > example of a parameter file (.ami) so you can't > use them to learn proper .ami file syntax. The > SiSoft example uses a "proprietary" CSV file format > for entering the parameters and the Cadence example > uses an unofficial subset of the .ami tree format. > > Arpad > ==================================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anand Ramalingam [mailto:anandr@Magma-DA.COM] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:48 PM > To: Muranyi, Arpad; ibis-users@eda.org > Subject: RE: [IBIS-Users] IBIS - AMI - questions > > Hi Arpad, > > Thanks for your prompt reply and the pointers. > > [Arpad] > > 3) A full fledged .IBS file alone is not going to help you much > because there is really not much in the .IBS file other than a > pointer to the AMI DLL and its parameter file (.ami). What you > need is a good example (i.e. a working DLL) with an appropriate > parameter file (.ami) and a simulator that can run them. > > [Anand] By any chance do we have a complete example (with ibis/dll/ami > files) on the web which I can download and simulate? > > Thanks > Anand > > -- 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 Mon Jun 15 09:00:10 2009
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