defining user-waveforms and functions

[svilen]

Hi,

I recently had to make a transition from Mentor's Eldo to Analog
artist for analog simulations. I used to work a lot in eldo with user-
defined waveforms. The command there is .defwave <name> <expression> -
basically you get the idea, one can define new waveforms from existing
waveforms by putting them in some sort of an expression. This can be
nested further to define waveforms based on already defined waveforms
or mixing user-defined waveforms with waveforms coming directly from
simulation like V and I.
I was wondering is there such a possibility in analog artist? It being
a widely used simulator I just can not imagine that there is nothing
there for such a useful thing, so may be I just don't know it.
So, I'll appreciate a lot any suggestions and they'll be also of great
help.

 

[andrewb]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:55:18 -0800 (PST), svilen <sminchev@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I recently had to make a transition from Mentor's Eldo to Analog
artist for analog simulations. I used to work a lot in eldo with user-
defined waveforms. The command there is .defwave <name> <expression> -
basically you get the idea, one can define new waveforms from existing
waveforms by putting them in some sort of an expression. This can be
nested further to define waveforms based on already defined waveforms
or mixing user-defined waveforms with waveforms coming directly from
simulation like V and I.
I was wondering is there such a possibility in analog artist? It being
a widely used simulator I just can not imagine that there is nothing
there for such a useful thing, so may be I just don't know it.
So, I'll appreciate a lot any suggestions and they'll be also of great
help.

That's what the ADE calculator is for. Or you can use OCEAN to create
complex waveforms based on calculations.

Perhaps I've not quite understood what you're trying to achieve?

For signals within spectre simulation, you could use the "bsource"
component, or Verilog-A.

Regards,

Andrew.