Use of DC operating point parameters in calculations and plots

It's not in spectreMDL syntax - it's just straight spectre syntax. See "spectre -h save" for more details (as I mentioned before). It's also covered in the spectre documentation in cdsdoc/cdnshelp (depending on the version of MMSIM you're using).

For hierarchy, you need to use netlist names, and spectre's hierarchy delimiter. So if the transistor is called "M5" and is in an instance called I2, you'd do:

save I2.M5:all

Note that if M5 is modelled using a (non-inline) subckt model, you would need the name of the instance within the subckt model. The simplest way of finding out (rather than diving through all the model files) is to do a single DC operating point, and then look at the operating point results in the results browser, and see what the instance name there is called.

If you want to model something with a subckt model, you can reference that .scs file from the Setup->Model Libraries form in ADE. Then for the component, you can set up the CDF to have the following in the spectre simInfo:

componentName: theNameOfTheSubckt
termOrder: the order of the terminals in the subckt model, using the names on the symbol
instParameters: any parameters you need to pass (need corresponding CDF parameters).

You'll also need a stopping view, to tell the netlister to stop expanding the hierarchy at that point. The easiest way to do this is to copy the symbol view to a view called "spectre".

Note there are numerous sourcelink.cadence.com solutions on how to do the above, so it's worth looking there if you can.

Regards,

Andrew.

It's not in spectreMDL syntax - it's just straight spectre syntax. See "spectre -h save" for more details (as I mentioned before). It's also covered in the spectre documentation in cdsdoc/cdnshelp (depending on the version of MMSIM you're using).

For hierarchy, you need to use netlist names, and spectre's hierarchy delimiter. So if the transistor is called "M5" and is in an instance called I2, you'd do:

save I2.M5:all

Note that if M5 is modelled using a (non-inline) subckt model, you would need the name of the instance within the subckt model. The simplest way of finding out (rather than diving through all the model files) is to do a single DC operating point, and then look at the operating point results in the results browser, and see what the instance name there is called.

If you want to model something with a subckt model, you can reference that .scs file from the Setup->Model Libraries form in ADE. Then for the component, you can set up the CDF to have the following in the spectre simInfo:

componentName: theNameOfTheSubckt
termOrder: the order of the terminals in the subckt model, using the names on the symbol
instParameters: any parameters you need to pass (need corresponding CDF parameters).

You'll also need a stopping view, to tell the netlister to stop expanding the hierarchy at that point. The easiest way to do this is to copy the symbol view to a view called "spectre".

Note there are numerous sourcelink.cadence.com solutions on how to do the above, so it's worth looking there if you can.

Regards,

Andrew.