FREE MODEL FOUNDRY NEWSLETTER

July 2007 Edition

FMF User Experience Column

This month's comment comes from Rick Munden, CEO of Free Model Foundry.
Rick writes:

"Free Model Foundry was created to solve a problem, the lack of board level component models. To that end we have written and published models for nearly 11,000 orderable partnumbers. All of these are available to you without charge.

That is a lot of models but it is still not nearly enough. However, to provide all the models you want for your simulation efforts, we need your support. Although there is no distribution charge for our models at the Free MOdel Foundry website, they are not free to develop.

To ensure we can continue to support your needs, there are three things we need you to do to help yourself and other Engineers:

Register on the FMF website. This will help us track how many engineers use FMF models and that in turn will enable us to communicate with IC companies and convince them with good data that models are a good investment.
Tell your IC vendors that you use FMF models and that you expect models to be freely available for all the digital IC you may want to design in to your boards.
Tell us which models you need so we can approach the vendors and show them where the demand is.

If you can do these things, FMF can better serve your verification needs."

Do you have acomment or an experience with board or system level verification you would like to share? If so, please send it to the email address at the bottom of this page.

The following is a list of 56 updates to the Free Model Foundry website for the month of June 2007.

Please note we are continuing to add Verilog models to the library.

There are now models and timing files covering over 10,500 part numbers on the FMF website.

New Blog Articles:

John Cooley and the Denali Memory Model Monopoly
If You Want It, You Have to Ask for It

Model Additions and Updates:

The following models have either been added or updated in the released libraries:

eclps:

eclpsl91.vhd 1.1
eclpslt20.vhd 1.1
eclpslt22.vhd 1.1
eclpslt24.vhd 2.1
eclpsp116.vhd 2.1
eclpsp451.vhd 1.1

flash:

s29gl01gp.vhd 1.5
s29gl032n.ftmv 1.0 new
s29gl032n.v 1.1 new
s29gl032n.ftm 1.0 new
s29gl032n.vhd 1.1 new
s29gl064n01.v 1.1
s29gl064n01.vhd 1.1
s29gl064n06.v 1.1
s29gl064n06.vhd 1.1
s29gl128n.v 1.6
s29gl128n.vhd 1.7
s29gl128n_s.v 1.2
s29gl128n_s.vhd 1.2
s29gl256n.v 1.6
s29gl256n.vhd 1.7
s29ns256p.ftmv 1.1 new
s29ns256p.v 1.2 new
s29ns512p.ftmv 1.1 new
s29ns512p.v 1.2 new
s29ns512p.sv 1.2 new
s29pl032j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29pl032j.v 1.0 new
s29pl064j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29pl064j.v 1.0 new
s29pl127j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29pl127j.v 1.0 new
s29pl129j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29pl129j.v 1.0 new
s29ws032j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29ws032j.v 1.0 new
s29ws064j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29ws064j.v 1.0 new
s29ws064k.ftmv 1.0 new
s29ws064k.v 1.0 new
s29ws064n.ftmv 1.3 new
s29ws064n.v 1.5 new
s29ws064p.ftmv 1.1 new
s29ws064p.v 1.4 new
s29ws128j.ftmv 1.0 new
s29ws128j.v 1.0 new
s30ml256p00.ftm 1.0 new
s30ml256p00.vhd 1.0 new

nlb:

nlb6253.vhd 2.5
nlb6254.vhd 2.5

stnd:

std245.vhd 2.0

stndh:

std241.ftm 1.1
std241.vhd 1.1

Separate VHDL and Verilog model list pages reflect these updates.

For full details on FMF modeling practices and how to use models in your verification work, you may purchase "ASIC & FPGA Verification, A guide to Component Modeling" by Richard Munden, available from Amazon.com.

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Have a great July

Contact Richard Munden: munden@freemodelfoundry.com