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Plotting pole/zero results

Grover

I often use the pole/zero analysis in Virtuoso GXL (6.1.3), and it works great, but the way to plot the poles and zeros is quite inconvenient. After each simulation, I have to click somewhere in the Results tab, select "Direct plot -> Main form", click "pz", set options, and click "Plot" before the results appear.

Obviously, it's quite annoying to do all this after each simulation run, while the normal AC analysis just pops right up. Is there a way to make the pole/zero plot appear automatically?

(perhaps equally annoying, is that Virtuoso also always opens another copy of my schematic. I usually work with ADE in one window and the schematic in another, but when I click "Main form", it opens another copy of the schematic in a new tab in ADE. Is there a way to stop this? This also happens when I choose "Print", e.g. for a pole/zero list or detailed operating points.)

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  • I'm using 6.1.3.500.13. In detail, this is what I do:

    1. Start Cadence and open the Library Manager
    2. Double-click the schematic view of my circuit (and drag the window to monitor 2), then descend into the part I'm interested in
    3. Double-click the adexl view of my circuit (and drag the window to monitor 1)
    4. Run a simulation
    5. Right-click the results, and choose "Direct plot -> Main form" (or "Print -> DC Operating point")

    The first time I do step 5, the Schematic window (on monitor 2) returns right to the top of the stack, so I have to descend my way back down to the component I want to measure. Everything else is just fine.

    Then I run the simulation again, and do step 5 again. Now the Schematic window stays the way it is, and the ADE XL window (on monitor 1) opens a second tab with the schematic (at top level). When I keep repeating steps 4 and 5, it just switches to this schematic tab each time.

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  • I'm using 6.1.3.500.13. In detail, this is what I do:

    1. Start Cadence and open the Library Manager
    2. Double-click the schematic view of my circuit (and drag the window to monitor 2), then descend into the part I'm interested in
    3. Double-click the adexl view of my circuit (and drag the window to monitor 1)
    4. Run a simulation
    5. Right-click the results, and choose "Direct plot -> Main form" (or "Print -> DC Operating point")

    The first time I do step 5, the Schematic window (on monitor 2) returns right to the top of the stack, so I have to descend my way back down to the component I want to measure. Everything else is just fine.

    Then I run the simulation again, and do step 5 again. Now the Schematic window stays the way it is, and the ADE XL window (on monitor 1) opens a second tab with the schematic (at top level). When I keep repeating steps 4 and 5, it just switches to this schematic tab each time.

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