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how to define different sweep variables for different test within the same adexl

Karev11

Hi,

It looks like sweeping variables can only be defined from "global variable" section (not "Design variables" from each test). 

In my case, transient and stb sim have different test benches, so I put them into different tests, but with that, I can not set sweep variable exclusive to each test for above reason.

any solutions? I'd like to keep different test within the same adexl

thanks,

Kevin

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Kevin,

    You can do this with ADE Assembler (introduced in IC617) - it was not possible within the older ADE XL tool.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Karev11
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew. 

    Just checked, Assembler looks very similar to adexl, and does allow sweeping variable for each test.  so problem solved.

    Maybe a side question: is Assembler a superset of adexl, meaning adexl plus some features like this one or there's fundamental upgrades? I'm just start looking into Assembler.

    Regards,

    Kevin

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  • Karev11
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew. 

    Just checked, Assembler looks very similar to adexl, and does allow sweeping variable for each test.  so problem solved.

    Maybe a side question: is Assembler a superset of adexl, meaning adexl plus some features like this one or there's fundamental upgrades? I'm just start looking into Assembler.

    Regards,

    Kevin

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  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to Karev11

    Hi Kevin,

    Yes. The relationship between ADE Assembler and ADE Explorer is a lot tighter - so you can use Explorer as a single test environment with lots more debug features than ADE L did, and it's easy to transition between the two. ADE Assembler also has a lot more filtering capability, local sweeps, run plans (for setting up multiple runs of different types together), waveform comparison specs, the ability to use sensitivity and optimisation (previously part of ADE GXL) and a whole lot more. The storage format is a lot more compact (uses many fewer files) and so the  new maestro views work much better in design management tools.

    Essentially it's a superset of ADE XL functionality - migration to it is simple but for an ADE XL user it should be trivial to adopt.

    I would suggest you look at various videos on the support site - for example this introduction (apologies for the robot voice) and this Rapid Adoption Kit: IC6.1.8: Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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