October 2020

TIP OF THE MONTH

Defining conversion levels using signal names instead of values

Here is a neat tip when the logic-1 or logic-0 level of your digital signal is expected to change with a variable supply voltage.

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PRIMITIVE OF THE MONTH

filter_comb

This primitive models a continuous-time comb filter, of which frequency response has regularly spaced peaks or notches.

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TUTORIAL OF THE MONTH

Modeling and simulation of silicon photonics systems with XMODEL

Learn how to model various silicon photonics WDM links with XMODEL primitives.

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XMODEL RELEASE UPDATES

2020.10 Release

This release adds many improvements and bug fixes including the support for non-standard terminal ordering and mapping of subcircuits to basic primitives in MODELZEN.

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