September 2025

Upcoming Event

Meet XMODEL at DVCon Europe 2025

This year, a UVM testbench that characterizes the design margins of an analog circuit by using an optimization technique will be presented. Learn more

Technical Paper

A Spectral-Efficient Low-Power NRZ/PAM-4 Dual-Mode Wireline Transmitter for Multidrop Interfaces

This ISLPED paper by DGIST used XMODEL to evaluate a new coding scheme for wireline transceivers with multi-drop channels and found a good match with the measurement results. Learn more

Tip of the Month

Limiting the transition slope of a signal

Check out this neat trick to convert a signal with step changes into a signal with a fixed transition slope. Learn more

Primitive of the Month

transition

This primitive converts an xbit-type signal to an xreal-type signal with finite rise and fall times. Learn more

Latest Issues

March 2026

EQCHECK, Adaptive Decision-Feedback Equalizer, and More

February 2026

XMODEL at DVCon US, Introducing EQCHECK, and More

January 2026

Generating Random Step Sequences for Stress-Testing, Measuring Single-Bit Responses, and More

December 2025

Season's Greetings, Checking a Clocked Comparator's Correct Output, and More

November 2025

Checking the Settling of an Analog Signal, Handling Inherited Nets with Legacy SPICE Netlisters, and More