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adding simulator views to a PDK ?.

alexsunny123

Hello,

Is there a simple way to add simulator views of (eg:eldo or hspice) for the PDK cells, so that you could netlist in the format specified by these simulators?

I would like to do this without disturbing the PDK or design kit as such.

thanks

alexsunny

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  • Hi alexsunny,

    Given that the precise details of how each component needs to be netlisted will be simulator-specific, there's no built-in way of doing this that Cadence provides (since it would require knowledge of the third-party simulators). The stopping views themselves would be easy enough (that's just coping one view to another), but the complexity is in filling in the simulation information in the CDF.

    You may find that the simulator vendors themselves (who provide the ADE interfaces to those simulators) provide something to do this though by translating from existing information (I don't know - I'm speculating).

    I'm not sure you can do it without "disturbing" the PDK - it would absolutely need to be altered to support this.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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  • Hi alexsunny,

    Given that the precise details of how each component needs to be netlisted will be simulator-specific, there's no built-in way of doing this that Cadence provides (since it would require knowledge of the third-party simulators). The stopping views themselves would be easy enough (that's just coping one view to another), but the complexity is in filling in the simulation information in the CDF.

    You may find that the simulator vendors themselves (who provide the ADE interfaces to those simulators) provide something to do this though by translating from existing information (I don't know - I'm speculating).

    I'm not sure you can do it without "disturbing" the PDK - it would absolutely need to be altered to support this.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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