Re: DC Sweep

Subject: Re: DC Sweep
From: Peter Liebmann (spl@antrim.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 17:04:32 PDT

We meant DC sweeps to be like a transient. With this in mind we can say
for a sweep of DC points:
1. initial_step fires (once) only on the first dc point
2. final_step fires (once) only at the last step of sweep
3. a variable is updated after each sweep point converges (many times)
> Hi all,
>
> There is no clear documentation in the current version of the LRM as to how
> DC Sweep should behave in terms of initial and final step.
>
> 1. Should initial_step fire on all DC steps of the DC sweep?
> 2. Should final_step fire on all DC steps of the DC sweep?
> 3. Should the value of variables rotate between the steps of DC sweep.
>
> analog begin
> x = x + 1;
> end
>
> So in the above case should the value of the variable x get carried over.
> ie. should it be 1, 2, 3,... in a DC sweep.
>
> cheers,
> Sri
> --
> Srikanth Chandrasekaran
> Global Software Group, EDA SBU
> Motorola Australia.
> Phone: +61-8-8168 3592 Fax: x3501 

-- 
Peter Liebmann        

Antrim Design Systems, Inc.
Tel. 831-430-4804
Fax. 831-430-1904

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Thu May 02 2002 - 17:06:41 PDT