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["Reece R. Pollack" <reece@xxxxxxx>]

I started down the path of creating an IBIS-to-Spice converter a couple 
of years ago. I researched it enough to decide it was feasible, then 
discovered a commercial product demo that would do enough of what I 
needed at the time and stopped working on it.

I'd just about forgotten about it until you mentioned it.

-Reece

On 8/30/21 12:34 PM, Fabien Corona wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on an IBIS parser for kicad integration.
> IBIS is a standard format to I/O buffers, that allows for "fast" and 
> accurate signal integrity simulations.
> While parsing the IBIS format is not so hard, well... I have data to 
> simulate, but no simulator...
>
> I was wondering if anybody in this mailing list had knowledge about 
> IBIS and / or SPICE simulation ?
> From the info I gathered, it is quite "easy" to convert to convert to 
> a SPICE model, but maybe there are better ways to do.
> ( If we could avoid a whole simulator from scratch, that would be nice )
>
>
> Basically, an IBIS file is :
> - R L C parameters,
> - voltage vs current tables
> - voltage vs time tables
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabien Corona
>
>
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