IBIS, SPice simulation doubt

[koolniran]

I am designing a Data acquisition system with a Texas instruments ADC, Inamps and a ST micro electronics micro controller. I am getting spice models for my inamps, differential amplifiers etc. so that I could do SPICE simulation using LT spice.

I wish to see the output of my ADC if I am providing an input signal with my simulated amplifiers and filters. I am getting an IBIS model of the ADC. Is there any tool software so that, I can import these spice models and connect with this IBIS model similar to what we do in LT spice and get an an output, so that I could do some FFT, transient analysis etc.?

I am new to these IBIS models. I am not sure what it is used for. When I read some introductory papers, I understood it is also a behavior model. Could we use it in the same way as SPICE transistor based models and get the same kind of results using some EDA softwares?

 

[anilrock87]

Hi,

I think these IBIS file's are not used for simulation like as you mentioned, but these are used for signal integrity analyses like reflection,crosstalk....etc.