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List of Figures Figure 21-19. Example 9—Simulation Results—AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297 Figure 21-20. Example 9—Simulation Results—Transient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298 Figure 21-21. Example 10—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299 Figure 21-22. Example 11—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301 Figure 21-23. Example 12—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303 Figure 21-24. Example 13—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1304 Figure 21-25. Example 14—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306 Figure 21-26. Example 15—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307 Figure 21-27. Example 16—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309 Figure 21-28. Example 17—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314 Figure 21-29. Example 18—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315 Figure 21-30. Example 19—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317 Figure 21-31. Example 21—Simulation Results 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326 Figure 21-32. Example 21—Simulation Results Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327 Figure 21-33. Example 22—Simulation Results 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329 Figure 21-34. Example 22—Simulation Results 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330 Figure 21-35. Example 23—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333 Figure 21-36. Example 24—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336 Figure 21-37. Example 24—Simulation Results Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337 Figure 21-38. Example 25—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339 Figure 21-39. Example 26—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340 Figure 21-40. Example 27—Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1342 Figure 21-41. PLL Circuit for Power Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343 Figure 21-42. PLL Circuit for HiZ Fault Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359 Figure 21-43. High-Rate Particle Detector Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369 Figure 21-44. Simulation Results—Input & Output Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1370 Figure 21-45. Noise at Amplifier O/P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371 Figure 21-46. Noise at Analog Memory O/P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372 Figure 21-47. Switched Capacitor Filter Circuit Schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373 Figure 21-48. Amplifier Schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374 Figure 21-49. AC & Noise Simulation Results of Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375 Figure 21-50. AC & Noise Simulation of Amplifier Macromodel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1376 Figure 21-51. Simulation Results of the Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377 Figure 21-52. Frequency Response of the Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1378 26 Eldo® User's Manual, 15.3
List of Tables Table 1-1. Documentation Syntax Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Table 2-1. Simulation Connection Manager Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Table 3-1. Option PREMIER_MODE Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Table 3-2. Eldo Analysis Command Support in Eldo Premier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Table 3-3. Eldo Premier—Supported Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Table 4-1. Scale Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Table 4-2. Arithmetic Functions and Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Table 4-3. Arithmetic Functions Used Only in .EXTRACT, .DEFWAVE, .SETSOA . . . . 112 Table 4-4. Operator Precedence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Table 4-5. Boolean Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Table 4-6. Bitwise Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Table 5-1. MOS Levels with -compat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Table 5-2. BJT Models with -compat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Table 5-3. Diode Models with -compat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Table 5-4. Resistor Level with -compat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Table 5-5. Spectre Constants and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Table 5-6. Spectre Conversion Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Table 8-1. Special Characters for Plotting and Probing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Table 8-2. Transient Extraction Language Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Table 8-3. General Extraction Language Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Table 8-4. Graphic Elements for SOA Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Table 9-1. Eldo Standard Output Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Table 9-2. Activating Performance Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 Table 11-1. Speedup of ISMC Over Standard Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530 Table 11-2. Comparison of Standard Monte Carlo and SSD Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 Table 12-1. Example Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 Table 13-1. Eldo Optimization Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 Table 13-2. Optimality Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Table 13-3. Optimization Result Status Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656 Table 13-4. Basic Examples of Circuit Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664 Table 13-5. Results of Optimization for GOAL Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 Table 13-6. Results of Optimization for MINIMIZE Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668 Table 13-7. Extracted Information from .otm File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 Table 13-8. Combinations of N1 and LS Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 Table 13-9. Results of Restricted Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670 Table 13-10. Values Extracted from fourband.otm File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674 Table 13-11. Nmos Example Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 Table 14-1. Mixed-Mode S Parameter Extraction Default Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 Table 14-2. CITIfile Data Format Supported Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708 Table 15-1. Eldo Reliability Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 Eldo® User's Manual, 15.3 27
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