.TH PAT2SPI 1 "May 23, 2004" "ASIM/LIP6" "CAO\-VLSI Reference Manual"
.SH NAME
.PP
\fIpat2spi\fP, PAT ALLIANCE format translator to Spice PWL format

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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBpat2spi\fP 
[
.I -slope natural_value
]
.I In_filename
.I Out_filename

.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBpat2spi\fP is a translator from ALLIANCE pattern format (\fI".pat"\fP)
to spice PWL format (\fI".spi"\fP). An optional slope parameter can be used to specify
the slope value in pico second.

.SH EXAMPLE
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Converts adder4.pat using PWL commands and generates the file spice_pattern.spi
(that could be used in a SPICE testbench for example).

.PP
.ti 7
pat2spi -slope 100 adder4 spice_pattern

.SH SEE ALSO
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asimut(1), pat(5)


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