Real Number Modeling Flow of Digital to Analog Converter

Abstract

This work introduces a flow of digital to analog (DAC) implementation in digital environment of SystemVerilog. Unlike the classical Verilog models, this digital to analog converter behavioral model is analog. Such type of model creation in general is called real number modeling. The DAC model is verified by the HSPICE and SystemVerilog Co-simulations which show its applicability in different register transfer level verification environments. The digital environment with real number modeled DAC runs around 8 times faster than the same environment with SPICE model. At the same time, the output signal’s voltage difference between RNM and SPICE models is less than 2 mV.