Some customers want the eda tool to optimize these taps and set their
values in the ami Init call.
Fangyi
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Subject: Re: [ibis-macro] Re: question on tap parameters in AMI
why should the eda tool know what type of filter or whatever it is?
As far as the eda tool is concerned the only job it has to do is to pass
the
model instances of some arbitrarily named parameters whose values comply
with
ami definition.
Quoting fangyi_rao@xxxxxxxxxxx:
Hi, Ambrish;
Thanks for the clarification. In your example a EDA tool will find two
groups of tap parameter, RX_FFE_Taps and RX_DFE_Taps in the .ami file
based on the parameter type. How does the tool know which group is for
FFE and which is for DFE? Note that model specific parameter names can
be arbitrary.
Fangyi
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:57 PM
To: ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ibis-macro] Re: question on tap parameters in AMI
Hi Fangyi,
You can give any name to the parameters themselves. For ex,
The model_specific section of the RX model with a 5 tap FFE and 3 tap
DFE can look like:
(Model_Specific
(RX_FFE_Taps
(-2 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.1 -0.1 0.2)(Default 0.1)
(Description "Second Precursor Tap"))
(-1 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.2 -0.4 0.4)(Default 0.2)
(Description "First Precursor Tap"))
(0 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 1 -1 2)(Default 1)
(Description "Main Tap"))
(1 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.2 -0.4 0.4)(Default2 0.2)
(Description "First Post cursor Tap"))
(2 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.1 -0.1 0.2)(Default 0.1)
(Description "Second Post cursor Tap"))
)
(RX_DFE_Taps
(-1 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.2 -0.4 0.4)(Default
0.2)
(Description "First Precursor Tap"))
(0 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 1 -1 2)(Default 1)
(Description "Main Tap"))
(1 (Usage Inout)(Type Tap) (Format Range 0.2 -0.4 0.4)(Default2
0.2)
(Description "First Post cursor Tap"))
)
) | end model_specific
Hope that helps,
Ambrish.
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Subject: [ibis-macro] question on tap parameters in AMI
Hi, Experts;
I have a question on tap parameter definition in .ami file. The
current
standard states that:
If in addition the individual tap weights are each given a name
which is their tap number (i.e., "-1" is the name of the
first precursor tap, "0" is the name of the main tap, "1" is
the name of the first postcursor tap, etc.) and the tap
weights are declared to be of type Tap, then the EDA platform
can assume that the individual parameters are tap weights in
a tapped delay line
This way we have to assume that Tx only has FFE and Rx only has DFE.
What if Rx has both FFE and DFE? How can we tell which group of taps
is
FFE and which is for DFE?
Thanks in advance.
Fangyi
