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Monte Carlo re-running a MC point as Statistical corner

MonaG
MonaG over 5 years ago

Hi,

I am using IC6.1.8 version and ran a Monte Carlo sampling test for 30 cases and saved a point in results detailed view as statistical corner but when I re-run the saved corner the results are identical to nominal corner and the monte carlo results are not recreated.

Any help is appreciated.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago

    There are two kinds of statistical corner you can create in ADE - either sequence-based or value-based. The value-based is more robust (and means you can make changes to the design; anything unchanged will get the variation in the corner). Sequence-based corners (if you have run with all or mismatch) won't work properly if you added or removed any component in the design - but they should repeat the result if nothing changed.

    Which is created depends on how you ran Monte Carlo. If you ran with a fixed-number of points (in Explorer/Assembler) and didn't go into the advanced options and turn on "save statistical parameters", then it will always save sequence-based. If you turned on the saving of these parameters, then you'd get a choice at the time you save the corner.

    You didn't say which MC run choice you ran with, or whether you're using ADE XL or Explorer/Assembler.

    Either way, i would expect sequence-based corners to also be OK if the design didn't change.

    So perhaps  you can say:

    1. Which ADE you're running
    2. How  you ran Monte Carlo (what the choices on the form were)
    3. Which Spectre sub-version  you're running (at the top of the spectre log file)

    Andrew 

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  • MonaG
    MonaG over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew, I think I found the problem, I mistakenly used regular model files for running "single run, sweeps and corner" instead of the MC model files. 

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  • MonaG
    MonaG over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew, I think I found the problem, I mistakenly used regular model files for running "single run, sweeps and corner" instead of the MC model files. 

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