August 2019

TIP OF THE MONTH

Composing an XMODEL testbench that replays the SPICE-simulated waveforms using a ‘replay_all’ primitive

This is a handy way of composing a testbench that tests the equivalence between a circuit and its model without using XMODEL-SPICE cosimulation.

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PRIMITIVE OF THE MONTH

mtline

With this primitive, you can model multi-conductor transmission lines with crosstalks and reflections.

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MODEL OF THE MONTH

Digitally-Controlled Oscillator (DCO)

Learn how to model a simple DCO using a few XMODEL primitives.

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Modeling an Oscillator with Resettable Phase, Multiple Outputs, and Arbitrary Waveforms