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Measure power consumption on CMOS and resistor?

tiennv

Hi everyone,

I have a circuit include 1 cmos and 1 resistor. I want to measure power consumption on each device.

Can you help me how to measure it?

Thank you. Have a nice day.

  • Andrew Beckett

    Assuming you're simulating in spectre, and using ADE to control it (it rather helps if you actually provide information like this), you can do Outputs->Save All and then enable (say) "devices" for the Select power signals to output (pwr) choice near the top.

    Then you can use Tools->Results Browser and then for the dcOp or tran results you can navigate to each device and see a :pwr output. For transient you can also use Results->Direct Plot->Main Form, pick tran for the result, then Power, Select set to "Instance" and then click on the component in the schematic and it will plot the power versus time for you.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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