-- Copyright (C) 2000-2002 The University of Cincinnati. -- All rights reserved. -- This file is part of VESTs (Vhdl tESTs). -- UC MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE -- SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE -- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, -- OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. UC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY -- LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR -- DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES. -- By using or copying this Software, Licensee agrees to abide by the -- intellectual property laws, and all other applicable laws of the U.S., -- and the terms of this license. -- You may modify, distribute, and use the software contained in this -- package under the terms of the "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" version 2, -- June 1991. A copy of this license agreement can be found in the file -- "COPYING", distributed with this archive. -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with VESTs; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, -- Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- $Id: parallel-plate.ams,v 1.1 2002-03-27 22:11:17 paw Exp $ -- $Revision: 1.1 $ -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This model was tested and compared with SPICE. -- The results match with SPICE -- The model implements a simple parallel place cap with just -- one top and one bottom plate. -- simulation time 2e11. -- Initially proposed by Dr. Carter. PACKAGE electricalSystem IS NATURE electrical IS real ACROSS real THROUGH GROUND REFERENCE; FUNCTION SIN (X : real ) RETURN real; END PACKAGE electricalSystem; use work.electricalSystem.all; entity plate is generic ( cell_resistance : real := 1000.0 ); port ( terminal up, down, left, right, top : electrical ); end entity plate; architecture behav of plate is quantity Vup across Iup through up to top ; quantity Vdown across Idown through down to top ; quantity Vleft across Ileft through left to top ; quantity Vright across Iright through right to top ; begin Rup : Vup == Iup * cell_resistance ; Rdown : Vdown == Idown * cell_resistance ; Rleft : Vleft == Ileft * cell_resistance ; Rright : Vright == Iright * cell_resistance ; end behav ; use work.electricalSystem.all; entity parallel_plate_cap is end entity; architecture struc of parallel_plate_cap is component plate is generic ( cell_resistance : real := 1000.0 ); port ( terminal up, down, left, right, top : electrical ); end component ; for all : plate use entity work.plate(behav); terminal up1, up2, down1, down2, left1, left2, right1, right2, top1, top2 : electrical ; quantity vcap across icap through top1 to top2 ; quantity vrgnd across irgnd through top2 ; quantity vs1 across left1 to left2; quantity vs2 across right1 to right2; quantity vs3 across up1 to up2; quantity vs4 across down1 to down2; constant cell_cap : real := 1.0e-6; begin plate1 : plate port map ( up1, down1, left1, right1, top1) ; plate2 : plate port map ( up2, down2, left2, right2, top2) ; --plate2 : plate port map ( up2, down2, left2, right2, ground) ; capeqn : icap == cell_cap * vcap'dot; -- there should be some ground resgnd : vrgnd == irgnd * 1000.0 ; vsrc1 : vs1 == 5.0 * sin(2.0 * 3.1415 * 10.0e3 --sine source * real(time'pos(now)) * 1.0e-15); vsrc2 : vs2 == 5.0 * sin(2.0 * 3.1415 * 10.0e3 --sine source * real(time'pos(now)) * 1.0e-15); vsrc3 : vs3 == 5.0 * sin(2.0 * 3.1415 * 10.0e3 --sine source * real(time'pos(now)) * 1.0e-15); vsrc4 : vs4 == 5.0 * sin(2.0 * 3.1415 * 10.0e3 --sine source * real(time'pos(now)) * 1.0e-15); end struc ;