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ADE EXPLORER - use existing netlist

NickJ

I want to run simulations without Explorer creating a new netlist, but it doesn’t seem keen.

I thought hitting run instead of netlist and run was sufficient, but it re-creates the netlist every time. I can’t find a way to tell it not to do that.

I've also tried creating a netlist for the circuit under test and used the config view to point to the netlist instead of the schematic, but I  get duplicate definition errors, an if I remove the duplicate definitions I am left with an error that it doesn't have a definition of the subcircuit I'm trying to simulate.

I feel the solution to this should be easy.

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  • Hi Andrew,

    The reason I'm needing to do this is to identify which parasitic capacitance are the ones responsible for coupling undesired signals into our analog chain. By removing/changing individual capacitances in the netlist I can track this down quite quickly. I see all the capacitances in the input.scs, I'm unsure of the location of the file named netlist, I can't find one in the simulation directories. There is an artSimEvnLog file of 0 bytes in the netlist folder.

  • in reply to NickJ

    The file netlist should be in the same directory as the input.scs (i.e. in the netlist directory). In Explorer you can use Window->Toolbars->Results and then hit the little terminal icon which should open the terminal just above the netlist dir (assuming you're only running a single simulation and not sweeps or corners).

    There are other ways of filtering parasitics using the parasitic aware design capabilities, but that's a bit more complicated to explain quickly than doing what you're doing for now...

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    HI Andrew, 

    OK, got it now. Cheers.

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