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Title: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by jjnkxb on Sep 7th, 2017, 6:43am I am implementing a history dependent model in verilog a. I had some problems which I hope you could provide help. I need to locate the input voltage peaks and store them in an array. Since the input voltage waveform is arbitrary, the array size is also varying. Is there any way to implement such array? In addition, to find the peak, I am considering to use d/dt function. When the time derivative changes sign, the peak is found. But right at the peak (for a linear voltage waveform), the time derivative is not defined. I am not clear how that is handled in circuit simulation. Or do you have any other idea to find the peak? Would you please provide me some insight? Thanks. Kai |
Title: Re: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by Ken Kundert on Sep 7th, 2017, 8:34am Quote:
No, not that I know of, not within Verilog-A. You could write the peaks to a file. Quote:
Try it and see. If you don't like the result, consider simply saving two points back and determine the peaks that way. -Ken |
Title: Re: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by jjnkxb on Sep 7th, 2017, 8:51am Thanks Ken. About your last sentence, I am not sure how I can save the previous voltage value. To my knowledge, the voltage is instantaneous. Would you please elaborate on that? Best, Kai |
Title: Re: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by Ken Kundert on Sep 7th, 2017, 11:09pm Code:
-Ken |
Title: Re: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by jjnkxb on Sep 8th, 2017, 1:14pm Ken, Thanks a lot. I will try this method and see how it works. Best, Kai |
Title: Re: finding voltage peaks and size varying array Post by jjnkxb on Sep 13th, 2017, 8:58am Ken, I tried to use the d/dt approach and also save the previous voltage and compare. Both approaches worked fine. Thank you very much for your help. Best, Kai |
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