Advanced Library Format (ALF), also known as IEEE 1603 or IEC 62265, is an

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and

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standard that describes a data

specification language A specification language is a formal language in computer science used during systems analysis, requirements analysis, and systems design to describe a system at a much higher level than a programming language, which is used to produce the exec ...

for library elements used in

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design applications for

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. ALF can model behavior, timing, power and noise, hot electron,

electromigration Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a Conductor (material), conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms. The effect is important in applicat ...

, antenna effects, physical abstraction and physical implementation rules of library elements.

References

* **IEC 62265:2005

External links

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IEEE standard 1603
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