psfxl warning, what it means?

Hmm, this confused me initially - your post (that I got the email notifier for) was about Monte Carlo in ADE XL. When I click on it, it's about something completely different (I assume you solved that problem, and edited the post and replaced it with something else). I should point out that nobody gets an email notifier when you edit an existing post, so unless somebody was likely to answer your earlier post, it was pretty likely that your new post would get overlooked.

The simple answer to this new question is that psfxl is only used for transient-like analyses (it can be used for ac too, but I'm not sure that's enabled in the simulator yet). So any of the other output data (e.g. noise, info analyses etc) will continue to use psfbin. This is just to alert you that despite you having picked psfxl as the output format, the other analyses are still output in psfbin. You can safely ignore the warning.

In fact if you pick sst2 as the output format (I'm not encouraging you to do that - psfxl is preferred), only tran data is output to sst2 and the rest are output in psfbin too (I don't think we alert you to that though).

I expect that over time we will extend psfxl usage to other analyses that need high capacity (e.g. noise analyses) but currently it's pretty much time-domain data only.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to know if you could provide any information or document(s) about the differences between these output formats: psf, psfxl, psfbin, sst2, etc. There is documentation on how to select which one, but I can't find anything that says why I would select one over the other, what are the advantages/disadvantages of each, etc.

FYI my interest is in how these options apply to mixed-signal simulation, but it would be good information to have for all types of simulations.

Thanks,

Evan