DVM - Design Verification Module

Objective

The Objective column allows you to specify a test objective for a particular test. Test objectives allow you to abstract the testing of a circuit by combining the configuration of the sources, loads, and setting the analysis directives for a test. Test objectives also measure certain scalar and specification values, such as the phase margin for a BodePlot test objective. Broadly speaking, there are two categories of test objectives:

AC/DC Objectives
DC/DC Objectives

The Objective column can be blank.

Many of the Objective definitions support a specially-formatted parameter string that can be used to override the values set in or derived from the DVM control symbol.

The general syntax is as follows:

TestObjective(REF, arg1, ..., argn, OPTIONAL_PARAMETER_STRING)

where OPTIONAL_PARAMETER_STRING is a space-separated set of KEY=VALUE pairs.