PRIMITIVE OF THE MONTH
freq_to_clk
This variable-domain translator primitive converts a frequency input to a clock output, which is useful when modeling oscillators.
April 2020
MODEL OF THE MONTH
Charge-pump phase-locked loop (PLL)
This basic charge-pump PLL model demonstrates how different categories of XMODEL primitives can be put together to describe a circuit that contains analog, digital, and timing circuits.
TIP OF THE MONTH
How to measure the phase-domain transfer function of a phase-locked loop
Learn how to use the 'probe_ac' primitive along with variable domain translator (VDT) primitives to perform AC analyses in various variable domains such as phase, frequency, duty-cycle, etc.
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