• Skip to main content
  • Skip to search
  • Skip to footer
Cadence Home
  • This search text may be transcribed, used, stored, or accessed by our third-party service providers per our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

  1. Community Forums
  2. Custom IC Design
  3. Passing different CDF parameters values to instance arr...

Stats

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 2
  • Subscribers 126
  • Views 14702
  • Members are here 0
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Passing different CDF parameters values to instance arrays

pacikk
pacikk over 8 years ago

Hi,

I'm trying to pass different transistor lengths/widths to an array of nfet devices MN0<2:0>. I tried passing "[100n 200n 300n]" in the length field of the nfet property window as suggested here: https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/38/t/20875

but Spectre returns a warning: Invalid value '[100n200n300n]' of type `scalar string' encountered. Expected value is of type `double' and the wrong W/L values are used.

Is there a way of achieving this?

Thanks,

Patrick

  • Cancel
Parents
  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 8 years ago

    Hi Patrick

    (by the way, you can also get through to the official support via http://support.cadence.com )

    This is not possible. Iterated instances have to have identical parameters. You'd have to expand out the devices to separate physical instances to achieve this.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Cancel
Reply
  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 8 years ago

    Hi Patrick

    (by the way, you can also get through to the official support via http://support.cadence.com )

    This is not possible. Iterated instances have to have identical parameters. You'd have to expand out the devices to separate physical instances to achieve this.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Cancel
Children
No Data

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.

© 2025 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Cookie Policy
  • US Trademarks
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information