Hi

I have a verilogA code for PFD based on a state machine. If I want to add non- ideal behaviour like narrow reset pulses into the model to mimic the actual circuit … how can it be done?

The code is similar to one the one in this website.( It is a bit too long- couldn’t post it here.)

http://www.ece.osu.edu/~wangc/DPLLVerilogA.pdf

I tried the ‘delay’ statement to delay the pulses….delay time being equal to the reset pulse width I wanted. It didn’t work. The simulator seems to totally ignore the given delay time(say 20ps or 500ps) and just take the value assigned. So the resulting waveform is like a spike rather than a pulse.

Since I wanted to have an architecture independent PFD I didn’t model it based on any logic circuits.
Would like to know if there are any particular statement or syntax I can use to get the pulses I want. Or any logic that would help!

S

I tried both 'absdelay' and 'delay' .This is how I used both

x = absdelay( vlogic_low, 500p)


where x is  real  and vlogic_low is 0.

Is this right?..

S

Ah, I've just seen that you mentioned in another posting that you are using hsim. So perhaps it's an implementation limitation in hsim? Check the documentation, and then contact Synopsys customer support, I guess  :)

Regards,

Andrew.

This is mainly directed at Ken but I could use anybody's suggestions.

Ken,

You had asked me to use the 'transition ' statement for producing the required pulse. I used these statements

else if (state == `same) begin
         V(up) <+ transition(vlogic_high, tdel, trise, tfall);
          V(dn) <+ transition(vlogic_high, tdel, trise, tfall);
         V(upb) <+ transition(vlogic_low, tdel, trise, tfall);
          V(dnb) <+ transition(vlogic_low, tdel, trise, tfall);
          V(up) <+ transition(vlogic_low, tdel1, trise, tfall);
         V(dn) <+ transition(vlogic_low, tdel1, trise, tfall);
         V(upb) <+ transition(vlogic_high, tdel1, trise, tfall);
         V(dnb) <+ transition(vlogic_high, tdel1, trise, tfall);
end
where tdel1= tdel+ min_pulse_width(say 20ps+50ps)
the rise and fall times are 1ps and the simualtions are run at 250Mhz input clk with trise and tfall at 20ps for both the local _osc clk and reference_clk.

My results are totally bad..even the previously obtained behavioral code doesnt seem right(initally I just had the first 4 'transisiton' statements in state 'same')

Can you tell me if this is a wrong way to get the narrow reset pulse?.

Also can you tell me what 'ttol' in 'transition' does w.r.t my code. I get spikes for the output. Is this becoz this parameter was not set?.

Has someone done this state machine based PFD with narrow reset pulses?

Thanks in advance

sylak

You should not have the transition function inside an if statement.

Consider using something like the following
Code:

module pfd_cp (out, ref, vco);
    current out; voltage ref, vco; output out; input ref, vco;
    parameter Iout = 100u. Ileak = 0; parameter real td = 10n;
    integer state, dstate; real pulse;
    analog begin
	  @(cross(V(ref)), +1)
		if (state > –1)  state = state – 1;
	  @(cross(V(vco)), +1)
		if (state < 1)  state = state + 1;
	   pulse <+ transition(state, (state!=dstate)?td:0);
	   dstate = pulse;
	   I(out) <+ Iout*pulse + Ileak;
    end
endmodule 

I've attached a figure that shows the transfer characteristic of the PFD.

-Ken