03-26-2010 10:21 PM
i am getting the following error report in my circuit, the problem is, from what i can tell the error is in a perfectly hooked up seven segment display.
this circuit is for my DE class so i have used only 74LS chips i wanted to show my teacher how to use Hierarchical blocks, to make cleaner looking files for a side project where we use alot of different gates and we want to keep it organized.
the problem is, after i made the block "2nd" which is a simple 3 bit asynchronous counter, i am getting this error:
| Output from instrument analysis
| | vv1: no DC value, transient time 0 value used
| | singular matrix: check nodes adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0 and adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0
| | singular matrix: check nodes adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0 and adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0
| | singular matrix: check nodes adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0 and adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0
| | singular matrix: check nodes adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0 and adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0
| | singular matrix: check nodes adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0 and adac1in:xu9.qc#branch_1_0
| | TRAN: Timestep too small; initial timepoint:trouble with (dledseg:xu2) d1:xu2
| | Error: doAnalyses: Timestep too small
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| | tran simulation(s) aborted
attached is the circuit files (set up to read all of the sub-circuits from National Instruments/Circuit Design Suite 10.1 in your documents folder) circuit is the file you should open
04-14-2010 12:20 PM
Hi,
Digital models in Multisim are behavioral model, what that means is the inputs/output pins are either high/low state. There are pin drivers running in the background that convert input/output pins to a voltage such as 5V or 0V so that digital components can work with analog components. Your circuit problems appears to be a pin driver issue and and it's failing to do mix-mode simulation. I was able to fix the circuit by connecting 1ohm resistors to U9 and the subcircuit "2trigger".
Attached is a modified file that is simulating.
Best regards,
Tien Pham