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spf in cadence

huadel
huadel over 10 years ago

Hello,

I am trying to simulate inverter in cadence, with a spf netlist generated by starRC (attached),

I tried the procedures suggested in this forum :

community.cadence.com/.../tip-of-the-week-how-to-simulate-a-subcircuit-netlist-with-spectre-in-ade

I use the symbol I created to include the spf netlist inside cadence schematic testbench for an inverter,

The simulation goes without errors but the netlister doesn't connect the nets of the spf file to the schematic netlist in cadence, as if it interprets cadence schematic netlist alone and the spf netlist alone and doesn't connect them , so the result is a floating spf netlist ,

Is there an additional procedure I should do to let spf netlist connects to the remaining netlist in the schematic testbench?

- I attached the spf file generated by StarRC (inv3.spf), and the one I modified to include the pins (inv3_pex.spf), and the testbench netlist,

note that I created a symbol cell (inv3_pex_ct) to include the spf netlist symbol cell (inv3_pex) , and I added the spf netlist (inv3_pex.spf) in the model libraries as suggested in the blog,

Thank you

ps: how can I attach the files? there is not attachment buttons ?

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    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago
    Tony - not 100% certain that the bus_delim option will solve the problem - I saw this in a response from R&D to an issue recently, but it wasn't exactly like yours. I've not tried this myself... (I'd have to create a suitable example). So customer support is definitely the best option.
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    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago
    Tony - not 100% certain that the bus_delim option will solve the problem - I saw this in a response from R&D to an issue recently, but it wasn't exactly like yours. I've not tried this myself... (I'd have to create a suitable example). So customer support is definitely the best option.
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