Todd Westerhoff, Vice President, Software, SiSoft
Adge Hawes, Development Architect, ISG Hardware Development, IBM Micheal Steinberger, Lead Architect, SiSoft
Kent Dramstad, ASIC Application Engineer, IBM
Barry Katz, President/CTO, SiSoft
Walter Katz, Chief Scientist, SiSoft

The IBIS Algorithmic Modeling Interface (IBIS-AMI) allows SerDes vendors to provide simulation models that run in multiple simulation environments. This has created the market for commercial SerDes channel simulators and raised the question of how well IBIS-AMI models correlate to both SerDes vendors' internal simulation tools and hardware measurements. This paper presents the results of a three-year effort to develop and correlate IBIS-AMI models for IBM's family of SerDes cores. The correlation methodology is described and results for both simulator-to-simulator and simulator to hardware correlations are presented.