(cross-posted to the IBIS-Interconnect and IBIS mailing lists)
Arpad,
Thanks for checking this. A cursory review of previous IBIS-ISS drafts shows no mention since rev 0.6 of global nodes. I must conclude that any intent to explicitly restrict global nodes was either never included or removed very early.
The good news is that no ".global" statement is supported in IBIS-ISS today. So, at least global nodes cannot be defined within an IBIS-ISS subcircuit.
As for solutions, Section 4.9 is the right place to include a global nodes rule. A key issue is whether we prohibit any top-level global node declarations from affecting IBIS-ISS subcircuits other than 0, or whether we would permit additional synonyms for node 0 (such as "ground" and other variations) supported in proprietary SPICEs. Further technical discussion can be moved to the IBIS-Interconnect list.
A BIRD-like process for IBIS-ISS is under development now. An announcement will be made when the system is ready for general use.
- MM
From: owner-ibis@eda.org [mailto:owner-ibis@eda.org] On Behalf Of Muranyi, Arpad
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:04 AM
To: ibis@eda.org
Subject: [IBIS] An IBIS-ISS spec question
Hello everyone,
I hope the IBIS Summit is going well in Asia...
I was trying to read what our IBIS-ISS spec says about
global nodes and parameters, and I did find the definitions
on the latter on pg. 26, but I can't find anything like that
on global nodes in the document.
As far as I remember, we did have rules in our drafts about
global nodes not being supported or not being visible inside
the IBIS-ISS subcircuits, but I can't find anything about
this in the document now. Please let me know if I am missing
something, but if this fell out of the document for some
reason, I believe we should add it back as soon as possible.
What is our IBIS-ISS "BIRD" process to document such spec
change requests?
Thanks,
Arpad
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