Re: Clarifing example for Packaging EGG

Hi again,

  Jon Powell's comment is totally accurate:

>> A circuit that demands the simulation of all 28 pins (and therefor all
>> 28 nets connecting to these pins) at the same time is not
>> acceptable. A mechanism that allows overlapping and redundant
>> coupling descriptions is needed.

  But I disagree that a SPICE-like description, or, for that matter,
any RLC matrix-based description, is unusable because of this.

  We all know that to get ULTIMATE accuracy requires very rigorous
analysis. In principal that means all 28 pins fully coupled. Anything
less than that is just an approximation.

  But that's fine if the approximation is a good one. And it's even better
if the approximation makes the analysis run a lot faster.

  I would assume that the simulation vendor would do something internally
to simplify the model with lots of coupling between pins, so that they
could get results in a reasonable length of time. How they go about
doing it is their business (literally.) I don't think we want to force
them to do it in any particular way.

  So, basically, I don't see why SPICE is not sufficiently "overlapping
and redundant." It's a lot MORE information than the simulator will
probably ever need. The existing matrix descriptions are probably equally
expressive, since they permit "full" or "sparse" coupling as needed.

  The one thing I _do_ worry about here is how the model MAKERS will
go about producing the coupling information...using field solver software?
Doing cut-and-try on measured data? With a dart board? This could
really affect the accuracy of results, particularly when different vendors
are doing their own thing.

--Eric

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Received on Mon May 8 09:13:56 1995