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Best way to set control bits in schematic simulation?

smthiid
smthiid over 14 years ago

Hello,

I have got in a trouble when trying to simulate my circuit in Cadence ic5141.  The reason is that I have 924 bits of control signal to set, which could be either 1V or gnd.  Apparently I would not add 924 DC voltage sources and set them one by one manually. 

I notice that in the Analog Design Environment - Setup menu there are two possible solutions: "stimuli" and "simulation files", and I tried both of them.  Stimuli does not work for me as I still need to set them manually, and for simulation files, it looks that I can edit a file and use some copy-paste, but I still need to change some net names and source names. 

Another way I also tried, is to set two net names "1" and "0", which are the outputs of two DC voltages sources with 1V and 0V to gnd, and I tried to set the control bits by setting their net names, like "1,0,0,1,0", but I don't want to write 924 1's or 0's, as some of them are actually repeated, and some of them are, say 56 consecutive 0's, so is there any syntax that I can use to take the benefit of these natures?  Like if I want to set "1,0,0,1,0"  by 8 times I can write "1,0,0,1,0<1:8>" or something like that?  Or if I want to set 8 consecutive 0's I can write "0*8" or something like that?  I tried many ways but none of them work.

So is there any better way to do this?  Thank you.

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  • Frank Wiedmann
    Frank Wiedmann over 14 years ago

    See http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:DocumentViewer;src=pubs;q=/comphelp/comphelp6.1.5/chap2.html and http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:ViewSolution;solutionNumber=11696480.

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