Radovan, I don't remember that I've seen many replies from vendors in response to your original question. So ... I offer these words of advice. Many models end clamp curves at 0V, because they assume clamp current will be zero at that point. As you have already pointed out, input termination doesn't work that way, so the current at 0V is non-zero. Because 0V in the clamp curves corresponds to the supply voltage, and positive voltage extends out beyond the supply - a clamp curve that ends at 0V will have to extrapolate inside of the device's actual operating region. If the current ans slope at 0V are zero, the extrapolation is trivial. That's not the case for input termination, and we've found that different simulators use different techniques for extrapolating data off end of the curve. Some tools extarpolate using the slope at the endpoint; others simply extend the last value of the curve out flat (i.e. slope = 0). I've never seen a thorough listing of which tool does what - our knowledge is based on empirical observation. My recommendation - define your clamp curves completely - from -2*VDDQ to VDDQ - so the simulator never needs to extrapolate the values. Todd. Todd Westerhoff High Speed Design Group Manager Cisco Systems 1414 Massachusetts Ave - Boxboro, MA - 01719 email:twesterh@cisco.com ph: 978-936-2149 ============================================ "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain -----Original Message----- From: owner-ibis-users@eda.org [mailto:owner-ibis-users@eda.org] On Behalf Of Radovan.Vuletic@infineon.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:50 AM To: ibis-users@eda.org Subject: [IBIS-Users] ODT topics Hi, recently I have took responsibility for IBIS models in Memory Products of Infineon and soon I have realised that it is very tricky. There were generated some ODT IBIS models (for DDR2 with thevenin impedance, not possible to separate Pull-up and Pull -down impedance) with s2ibis2 as Inputs with Power and Ground Clamps curves. Everything was OK until first customer were complaining that during his simulations our ODT behave other than comparing to Samsung and Micron ODT's. After some 5-6 hours of frustrating analysis we have discovered that the "only" problem is that neither the clamp curves are cut where they reach zero nor they are extrapolated horizontally to 2*Vcc. As soon as we done that (cutting at zero current and extrapolating to 2*Vcc) everything was OK. By the way, Mr. Muranyi has nicely explained this procedure in his paper "Modeling on-die terminations in IBIS (without double counting)". The problem that we have experienced is obviously because of double counting of some data. My question would be: what are simulators (e.g. HSPICE) really doing with IBIS models (specially with Input models), how are data treated, what is the algorithm of calculation (if designer was aware of this algorithm double counting could be perhaps avoided)? Is it possible to get this things written in electronic form or anywhere on Internet? By the way, on IBIS summit Meeting in Munich in March (DATE 2005) somebody mentioned something about some Cookbook for ODT's. Is there any estimation when will this Cookbook appear? Many thanks in advance for any help or advice, Radovan Vuletic Infineon Technologies AG MP PD PDE Room 03.911 Balanstraße 73 D-81541 München Phone: +49 (0)89 234 20108 Fax: +49 (0)89 234 27705 Fax (PC): +49 (0)89 234 955 5305 E-mail: radovan.vuletic@infineon.com |------------------------------------------------------------------ |For help or to subscribe/unsubscribe, email majordomo@eda.org with just |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 email a written request to ibis-request@eda.org. | |IBIS reflector archives exist under: | | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/users_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email/ E-mail since 1993 |------------------------------------------------------------------ |For help or to subscribe/unsubscribe, email majordomo@eda.org |with just 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 email a written request to ibis-request@eda.org. | |IBIS reflector archives exist under: | | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/users_archive/ Recent | http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email/ E-mail since 1993Received on Mon Apr 4 08:48:19 2005
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