RE: Revised tablemodel proposal

Sri,
Here is a revised version of the proposal incorporating your feedback.
Thanks,
--Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chandrasekaran Srikanth-A12788
> [mailto:Srikanth.Chandrasekaran@motorola.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:12 AM
> To: Martin O'Leary; 'verilog-ams@eda.org'
> Subject: RE: Revised tablemodel proposal
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I have the following two queries on this proposal:
>
> 1. For the degree character it says it can be 1,2 or 3. It was suggested
> in the LRM meeting, if I remember correctly that we will create a separate
> section under "control string" to explain what this degree characters mean.
> You have a few examples are your examples use either 1, 3 but not degree 2
> which seems to be correct to me - either use linear or cubic for the
> interpolation technique. So I am thinking the proposal should either say
> that 2 should not be used or what 2 means. I still think addressing the
> interpolation method using degree character in a separate section will be
> useful.
>
> 2. The other thing that I mentioned the last time we discussed was the
> usage of "S" -> Spline for the extrapolation technique. I think this would
> be unstable (and hence the original proposal from Antrim didn't have it -
> and explicitly mentioned that doing extrapolation with cubic spline will
> not be allowed) and the suggestion was the restrict it. The problem with
> using spline for extrapolation is that it really depends on how far the
> point is from the last point that's specified in the table and you can get
> really bad extrapolated values.
>
> Regards,
> Sri
> PS: I will search for the minutes of the meeting and forward it across,
> because I don't remember whether there were other suggestions from that
> meeting.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-verilog-ams@eda.org
> > [mailto:owner-verilog-ams@eda.org] On Behalf Of Martin O'Leary
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:57 AM
> > To: verilog-ams@eda.org
> > Subject: Revised tablemodel proposal
> >
> >
> > FYI - Here is a revised version of the $table_model proposal.
> > I have improved the examples, made some of the text
> > (hopefully) more clear, tidied up the syntax and tables.
> > Thanks,
> > --Martin
> >