I have just designed a 8 bit ADC. I was wondering how can find out the INL/DNL of my ADC? I know that I could use the ideal 8 bit DAC that is in the ahdlLib in Cadence. But I just don't know how to set the attributes in the ideal 8 bit DAC. Can anyone please tell me how to do that? Does that ideal 8 bit DAC work with hspiceD? I would appreciate very much if someone can give me some insight on that.
you can use parametic analysis to run different input to you adc and then try to write an exprission for inl (you may use value from special functions) then you don not an ideal dac the compare the output at each point and the adc input which is the varaiable in the parametic analysis (note spectre will not accept a varaiable in the exprission so you but in the expression a node that has the same potential as the input