ASSEMBLER: possible to export tests as ADE-L states?

Hi Jorge,

There is no mechanism to save an ADE L state from Assembler. There should be no need to do that, and in fact saving the test setup makes no sense because there are more things you can do in a test in Assembler (i.e. Explorer) than are possible in ADE L, so if it was possible, it would be lossy.

You can however drop down into ADE Explorer and look at just that one test.

Is "save=selected" appearing in the netlist? Note that if you have save=selected and no explicit save statements (i.e. no "selected" signals) then spectre saves all voltages (by design - if you didn't explicitly tell it what to save, it assumes  you wanted to at least see something, so saves everything).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Jorge,

There is no mechanism to save an ADE L state from Assembler. There should be no need to do that, and in fact saving the test setup makes no sense because there are more things you can do in a test in Assembler (i.e. Explorer) than are possible in ADE L, so if it was possible, it would be lossy.

You can however drop down into ADE Explorer and look at just that one test.

Is "save=selected" appearing in the netlist? Note that if you have save=selected and no explicit save statements (i.e. no "selected" signals) then spectre saves all voltages (by design - if you didn't explicitly tell it what to save, it assumes  you wanted to at least see something, so saves everything).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew! The netlist does have a "save" statement to the signals I'd like to plot, so it must be something else...

However, I found that if I leave the section "Save Options" under the "Options -> Save all..." menu (when dropped-down in Explorer), then Spectre works as expected and saves the selected signals. This behavior is different from ADE-XL/ADE-L, thus my desire to "export" the test and compare.

Thanks and best regards,

Jorge.

Hi Jorge,

dontpanic said:

However, I found that if I leave the section "Save Options" under the "Options -> Save all..." menu

I'm not sure what you mean by this (I suspect you've missed out a word somewhere)?

Also, please indicate which IC subversion (Help->About) you're using once you've clarified what the statement above meant (maybe with a screenshot too?)

Thanks,

Andrew.

My bad Andrew, too fast typing! I meant:

"if I leave the section "Save Options" under the "Options -> Save all..." menu (when dropped-down in Explorer) empty, then Spectre works as expected and saves the selected signals". (See snapshot below)

This is Spectre 17.1.0.307.isr6 on ICADV12.3-64b.500.22

Regards, Jorge.

Hi Jorge,

The best way to debug this is if you can show the analysis and save statements from the bottom of the input.scs both with and without save=selected being set.

The default in spectre is save=selected, so it really shouldn't make a difference. I don't see a difference using IC617 ISR23 with Explorer, so my first step would be to check what's in the netlist.

Regards,

Andrew.