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Message started by krishnap on Apr 24^th, 2007, 2:24am

Title: What is Device checking option in spectre
Post by krishnap on Apr 24^th, 2007, 2:24am

In the ADE environment, under simulation tab,
there is a Device checking tab.
What would be the typical use of this option?

Regards,
Krishna

Title: Re: What is Device checking option in spectre
Post by Andrew Beckett on Apr 30^th, 2007, 5:31am

It allows you to set up things like "safe operating area" limits on your devices - checking that devices don't exceed a certain current level, for example.

Effectively it allows use of spectre's "assert" statement during the simulation. Look at the documentation on that (spectre -h assert) for more details.

Andrew.

Title: Re: What is Device checking option in spectre
Post by krishnap on Apr 30^th, 2007, 11:34pm

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the information.
I feel this check is useful, so that it can notify if the reliability limits
are exceeded.

Regards,
Krishna