Plotting temperature in a transient simulation

See this post.

Andrew.

I seen that post already.

I did:

ADE XL-->Outputs-->Save All, then on the bottom there was "Save circuit information analysis" i added new raw:

name=temp, what=all, enabled=yes

sim ran, opened results browser, don't see temperature..

That's not what I said - I mentioned there that you need to use the Save by Subckt tab. I thought that appeared during IC617, but it seems I was mistaken - it was added in IC618 ISR3.

So for the version you're using, you'll have to use the approach taken in this post instead.

The way you did it won't work. That's just saving a result database called "temp" from an info analysis, which is not what I was saying.

Andrew.

OK, i created file "savetemp.scs", with one line "save temp"

then i added and included it in ADE XL-->Setup-->Model Libraries, reran simulation. unfortunately still dont see temp, where am i supposed to plot it from? im checking results browser and don't see anything related to temp

Look in the results browser, under the "tran" results. At the top level you should now see a signal called "temp" which you can plot.

Andrew.

that is exactly where i am looking, and there is no "temp" to plot, there are all my signals etc, but nothing "temp" related.

did i miss some intermediate step maybe?

Alright i found my problem...i did it for default "nominal" corner, but im running some custom corners, all i had to do is add that file definition in the specific corner im running.

nevermind, now with this method of manual file inclusion sim works and i see  "temp" in transient sims. thank you 

I realised after my previous post (I had a personal commitment this evening so couldn't reply sooner) that you might have been using corners in ADE XL and so the Setup->Model Libraries on the test would then get ignored.

Another approach would be to specify the included file via Setup->Simulation Files - under the Definition Files entry. Then this will be included even when corners are defined, and would avoid you having to enter it for each corner.

Regards,

Andrew.

great, thanks a lot! noted.

great, thanks a lot! noted.