April 2024

Tip of the Month

Generating a sinusoidal signal with resettable phase

How do you generate a sinusoidal signal, of which phase can be reset by an external input? A 'sin_gen' primitive followed by a 'switch' primitive won't do it.

Model of the Month

Modeling a gated ring oscillator with multiple output phases & arbitrary output waveforms

Here is a model of the gated ring oscillator (GRO) presented in the paper "A Multi-Path Gated Ring Oscillator TDC With First-Order Noise Shaping" by M. Z. Straayer and M. H. Perrott.

Primitive of the Month

pwl_func

This primitive defines a piecewise-linear (PWL) function from an xreal-type input to an xreal-type output.

Latest Issues

April 2024

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

March 2024

UVM Testbench for LDOs, Modeling a Buffer with Variable Rise/Fall Delays, and More

February 2024

XMODEL at DVCon US, Modeling D-PHY Transceivers, and More

January 2024

Modeling a Buffer with Arbitrary Rising and Falling Transition Waveforms, and More

December 2023

XMODEL at ASP-DAC 2024, Modeling Time-of-Flight Sensors, and More