ANALOG DEVICES Signal Chain Designer TOOL USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Jim Thompson · 2013-08-15T18:48:08+00:00

Didn't I warn of an on-line simulator at Analog Devices? Take a look at this USER LICENSE AGREEMENT, particularly the part titled LICENSE TO INPUTS AND OUTPUTS, where you hand over your proprietary rights as soon as you define I/O. ==================================================================== Welcome To Signal Chain Designer: Step 1 of 2 License Agreement for Signal Chain Designer ANALOG DEVICES Signal Chain Designer TOOL USER LICENSE AGREEMENT Read the following terms and conditions carefully before using Signal Chain Designer (?SCD?). They define your rights and obligations with respect to the SCD tool and documentation being used by you. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, then you may not continue with the use of the SCD tool and documentation. USING THE SCD TOOL AND DOCUMENTATION INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT WITH AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS. AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DOES NOT HAVE AUTHORITY TO BIND THE ENTITY USING THE SCD TOOL AND DOCUMENTATION SHOULD NOT USE THE SCD TOOL AND DOCUMENTATION WITHOUT OBTAINING APPROVAL OF THIS AGREEMENT FROM A PERSON HAVING SUCH AUTHORITY. 1. LICENSE GRANT Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you are granted a non-exclusive, nonsublicensable, nontransferable, limited license to use the SCD tool and documentation solely for your internal design use. 2. LICENSE TO INPUTS AND OUTPUTS With respect to any information submitted by you in connection with your use of the SCD tool (?Inputs?) and any output created from your use of the SCD Tool (?Outputs?), you shall give, and hereby grant, Analog Devices, Inc. (?ADI?) and its subsidiaries a perpetual irrevocable paid-up license under your patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, mask works and other proprietary rights that are reasonably required for ADI to use, alter, make or have made, import, distribute, copy or otherwise exploit any Input, Output or any other subject matter or result of this...

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Kevin Aylward 12 years ago

Any Standard Spice3, and I wrote IN THE B SOURCE !

m, MEG, k, u etc are FINE in the normal netlist, however...

Spice/XSpice spits out an "unknown parameter" if used in say,

B2 out 0 i=exp(V(1,0))*2k

In SuperSpice, I actually automatically pre-process the PSpice Value {} notation and convert it to the Spice3 syntax, but I haven't as yet added a fix for the multipliers. Although, for normal components and parameters SS can handle 2k2 notation.

I don't know Spice3 is not consistent on this. I haven't checked to see if ngspice fixed this.

Kevin Aylward B.Sc.

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Chris Jones 12 years ago

Their in-house simulator ADICE is very very good. I suspect that the concern may have been more about the simulator escaping, than the chip schematics, which you could get reverse-engineered quite easily anyhow. Without the simulator you quite likely would not be able to use the netlists for much anyway, as they probably wouldn't run on other simulators without some effort being expended.

Chris

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Jim Thompson 12 years ago

OK. I use UltraEdit for all my text work, so I think I can easily produce a B-source version that uses no "m", "u", etc, without much effort.

I'll just issue the two versions together and let the user pick. ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson 12 years ago

Looks like I need to visit your pages ;-)

Here's my latest cut to the HeJian Inverter...

...Jim Thompson

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