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.
April 2024
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.
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