RE: Verilog-AMS LRM Committee Call Agenda - 14 Feb 2005

Sri,
FYI - myself and Patrick got together during the week and created the $table_model requirements we determined based on user input we have gotten. We hope these will prove helpful in moving forward with $table-model specification.

Here is the requirement list we came up with;

Table Model Requirements.
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1. Data may be arranged as:
      - a scattered set of points
      - on a set of isolines

   The input data format should clearly define the structure so that it's obvious to users how the tabel_model function is applied to the data. The interpolation algorithm will also depend on the structure, so documenting that structure in the LRM is necessary to documenting how it is interpolated.

2. The format and use-model should be reasonably intuitive to users who are not table-modeling experts so they can create table-models easily.

3. Sections

   The data file should support the concept of sections. An example might be sections for various corners of a model.

4. Units

   The data file should allow units to be associated with the data.

5. Multiple dependents

   The data file may contain >1 dependent. The user needs a way to specify which dependent(s) they wish to interpolate. This has also been called "skipping columns".

6. Closest lookup
  
   Instead of doing an interpolation on the data in a particular dimension, users want to do a closest lookup.

7. Independent scale

   The independent data may be sampled on a log scale rather than a linear scale. The interpolator should know this and act accordingly.

Thanks,
--Martin, Patrick

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-verilog-ams@eda.org [mailto:owner-verilog-ams@eda.org] On
>Behalf Of Chandrasekaran Srikanth-A12788
>Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:04 PM
>To: VerilogAMS LRM Committee
>Subject: Verilog-AMS LRM Committee Call Agenda - 14 Feb 2005
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>Date: 14 Feb 2005, 1:30pm Pacific Time
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>Agenda:
>* Presentation from IBIS (~15 minutes)
>* Initial analysis of 1364 2001 vs 2005 syntax differences
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>(I have sent an updated summary on the different table_model requirements
>yet from the discussions we have had in the last few meetings. I plan to do
>this sometime this week and we can have further discussions on table_model
>in the end of feb conference call).
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>Regards,
>Sri
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>Srikanth Chandrasekaran
>Freescale Semiconductors, Australia
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Received on Sun Feb 13 21:46:24 2005