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PSpice User Guide Digital device modeling October 2019 397 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. and the logic level of the node. Node strength calculations are described in Chapter 14, "Digital simulation." The purpose of strengths is to allow the simulator to find the value of a node when more than one output is driving it. A common example is a bus line which is driven by more than one tristate driver. Under normal circumstances, all drivers except one are driving at the Z (high impedance) strength. Thus, the bus line will take on the value of the one gate that is driving at a higher strength (lower impedance). Another example is a bus line connected to several open collector output devices and a digital pullup resistor. The pullup resistor outputs a 1 level at a weak (but non-Z) strength. If all of the open-collector devices are outputting at Z strength, then the node will have a 1 level because of the pullup resistor. If any of the open collectors output a 0, at a higher strength than the pullup resistor, then the 0 will overpower the weak 1 from the pullup, and the node will be a 0 level. Configuring the strength scale The 64 strengths are determined by two configurable options: DIGDRVZ and DIGDRVF. You can set these options in the Simulation Settings dialog box in PSpice A/D. DIGDRVZ defines the impedance of the Z strength, and DIGDRVF defines the impedance of the forcing strength. These two values define a logarithmic scale consisting of 64 ranges of impedance values. By default, DIGDRVZ is 20 kohms and DIGDRVF is 2 ohms. The larger the range between DIGDRVZ and DIGDRVF, the larger the range of impedance values in each of the 64 strengths. Determining the strength of a device output The simulator uses the value of the DRVH (high-level driving resistance) or DRVL (low-level driving resistance) parameters from the device's I/O model. If the level of the output is a 1, the simulator obtains the strength by finding the bin which contains the value of the DRVH parameter. Likewise, if the level is a 0, the simulator uses the value of the DRVL parameter to obtain the strength.