Matlab interfacing with Virtuoso

Taking a look at https://support.cadence.com/apex/articleattachmentportal?id=a1O0V000009MoSnUAK might help you.

thank you very much for the reply, does this require a special license or just having Matlab and IC618 are sufficient to use this RAK / feature ?

regards

For the simulink co-simulation, no special Cadence license is needed. Of course you need the simulink licenses on the Matlab side, but nothing additional on the Cadence side.

Andrew

thanks for the confirmation Andrew.

Just to be sure can I also take a DESIGN block like LNA designed in IC618 into Matlab for system level simulations ?

regards

I'm not really sure what that would mean. You can have a Simulink simulation (note, Matlab isn't a simulator) and have that interface to a Spectre or AMS simulation - effectively you put a coupler between the two which defines the interface. You're not taking the block into Simulink - you're just co-simulating between the two blocks.

There's also the ability to go the other way using the ability to export a SystemVerilog DPI-C model from Simulink and use that in AMS Designer along with your design block.

There will be a session at the Cadence Live EMEA event on Tuesday 19th October (a joint presentation between The MathWorks and Cadence (me!) which talks about the various interfaces between the two sets of tools; it will mostly focus on the ADE - MATLAB interface, but will briefly cover the other flows that are available).

Regards,

Andrew

thanks Andrew for the reply, it is great that this will be covered in the Cadence Live. Is the registration still open ? - can you please share the link to register for it ?

regards

It's here: CadenceLIVE Europe 2021

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

the CDNLive session today was quite good , thanks for that.

I was looking at the resources including the Virtuoso ADE Matlab integration document, it seems to be mainly around Assembler and not ADE L right ?

Are there any similar documentation / RAK that demonstrates using Matlab integration with ADE-L ?

When trying to launch Matlab from Assembler I was getting an error like the following , which seems a special license is required ?

regards

Dear sidm,

As perhaps you know, ADE-L is no longer a supported product from Cadence. Basically, it is replaced by ADE Explorer which has far more features and capabilities. Hence, it may not be worth your time tying to find any ADE-L/Matlab integration documentation. Further, my understanding was that the interface between the two consisted of a Matlab toolbox that enabled it to read a waveform database (i.e. psf directory) and perform Matlab expressions on its contents. There was, once again my understanding, an AMS/Simulink interface.

The integration between ADE Assembler/Explorer with Matlab requires a Virtuoso MATLAB Integration Option license (ID 95252) as stated in its documentation. From the error message you included in your latest posting, it appears you may not have access to this license feature.

I hope my comments are somewhat useful to you - although I cannot speak (write?) with the far more extensive background on this that Andrew has on this subject!!

Shawn

Thanks for the reply, yes License is an issue which I am looking into hence I asked for solution of using ADE-L with Matlab documentation so that the work doesn't stop... Documentation on enabling using ADE-L with Matlab as well as any example demonstrating the flow.