Accessing temperature in an AMS simulation

I found this thread that I could use to get the temperature at the start of a simulation, but short of updating it on a periodic basis, I can't see a way to make it continuous

      https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/custom-ic-design/38379/verilog-a-model-and-temperature-in-ac-sim

Also, how do I configure AMS to update the temperature using the "dynamic parameter" control? I tried to vary "temp", and it creates a variable called temp that has no link to the simulator temperature setting

I don't think I understand what you're saying. If you're saying that you can have a vsource output the current temperature converted into a voltage, then that should work with AMS. Is that using tc1 and tc2?

The temperature doesn't normally change during the transient unless you use the dynamic parameter control in spectre - and you can use the same mechanism with AMS. What INCISIVE/XCELIUM version are you using for AMS (this should appear in the AMS simulator log)?

In VerilogA and VerilogAMS you can also use $temperature to retrieve the current simulator temperature.

Regards,

Andrew.

Apologies, I think I've wasted your time. I couldn't get the dynamic temperature working in AMS yesterday, but it works today doing what I thought I tried yesterday...

I wanted to combine that with something that reported the temperature in the simulation, and updated on the dynamic changes. It seems like the @(initial_step) function is updated on the temp changes, which I didn't expect, so that gives me everything I need.