September 2019

TIP OF THE MONTH

How to use incremental profiling to analyze reasons for slow simulation speeds with circuit-level models (CLMs)

Learn how to analyze the XMODEL CLM simulation times and improve them accordingly.

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Q&A OF THE MONTH

Simulating Feedback Loops

Learn the secret how XMODEL handles feedback loops without triggering infinite events.

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PRIMITIVE OF THE MONTH

delay_to_clk

This primitive is handy when modeling the power-supply induced jitter (PSIJ) of a clock buffer chain.

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XMODEL RELEASE UPDATES

2019.09 Release

This release strengthens the MODELZEN support for circuit designs containing global signals, dependent sources, and reserved keywords as net names.

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