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Can I select simulation files via design variable? And can I sweep over a set of given parameters in ADE Assembler?

SteveVrk

Hello,

I have a set of simulation files which I want to include selectively based on a design variable. Is this possible?

Furthermore, I would like to sweep over a set of given parameters, but not the full expanded set.

For example, say I have design variables var1, var2 and var3.

Then I would like to simulate the following three cases:

  1. var1=5; var2='Case6'; var3=67;
  2. var1=0; var2='Case7'; var3=55;
  3. var1=9; var2='Case8'; var3=45;

What is the best way to do this?

I know I can create multiple "Tests" in Assembler but I do not want this because I would need to duplicate/copy the entire configuration. For just, just a few design variables change over which I would like to iterate.

  • Andrew Beckett

    For the first part, assuming that it's some kind of file to include for the simulator, go to Setup->Simulation Files and then add a definition file as: VAR("MYFILE") or VAR("var2") in your example above - this will automatically add a design variable called MYFILE/var2. You can then set that to "thefile.scs" or whatever (including the quotation marks - need to be double quotes not single quotes).

    For the second, create your three variables as follows:

    var1=5,0,9
    var2="Case6","Case7","Case8"
    var3=67,55,45

    then select all three and do right mouse->group as parametric set. This means that they will be swept together (so 3 points) rather than orthogonally (27 points). You can use group as parametric set wth design variables (in Explorer or Assembler), global variables (in Assembler) and more recently in run plans (in Assembler).

    Hope that helps!

    Andrew

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