Hi, I am new to this forum. I am designing a undergrad-level course that incorporates PCB design.
I want to know if there's a way to simulate power/energy characteristics of the components you sell?
If detailed SPICE models are given, I think you can do it in tools like Altium Designer. However, I don't think commercial products provide a detailed SPICE model (or do they?).
I wonder if, e.g., black-box models or something like that, is available for components in general so that at least power/energy characteristics can be simulated.
Or should I rely on parsing the datasheet for each component that I am considering?
Thank you for your help.
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Re: Is there a way to simulate chips' power/energy with SPIC
No, we don't have any SPICE models like that.
Energy/power models are some of the hardest to build. They have to contain all the parasitic terms and interactions that get left out of standard design documents. Building them is a process of running them and testing the results against the actual hardware over and over, adding and tuning terms over and over until the calculated results match the real ones. They're never really done because there are always new operating conditions and use cases that might not match any of the ones already tested.
Energy/power models are some of the hardest to build. They have to contain all the parasitic terms and interactions that get left out of standard design documents. Building them is a process of running them and testing the results against the actual hardware over and over, adding and tuning terms over and over until the calculated results match the real ones. They're never really done because there are always new operating conditions and use cases that might not match any of the ones already tested.
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