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Inclusion of Spectre analysis statements via include file in ADE: How to control it?

StephanWeber
StephanWeber over 3 years ago

Hi,

Spectre is very powerful regarding sweeps, but the ADE GUI has limited flexibility, e.g. I want to run such 4-dimensional sweep:

sweepstb sweep param=Cm start=1p stop=25p step=5p {

sweepstb2 sweep param=Rm start=50 stop=2k step=500 {

sweepstb3 sweep param=RL start=100 stop=2k step=500 {

sweepstb4 sweep param=temp start=0 stop=100 step=50 {

stb1 stb start=1 stop=1G dec=5 probe=Vfb annotate=status
}
}
}
}

I include this as scs file like I include model files to ADE. This way the include is done at the top of the netlist part.

However, if would be good to be able to have it at the end, or even to define the sequence of analysis in combination with the other analyses defined by ADE.

Is there way to define where in the netlist the include is done? A native default place would after the ADE-defined analyses.

Usually it is e.g. best to run the longest analysis at the end, just to be able to stop it and still be able to investigate on the already run 1st analyses.

Bye Stephan

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago

    Hi Stephan,

    There's no fully-released capability to do this. You would need to contact customer support to request such a capability.

    Andrew

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  • StephanWeber
    StephanWeber over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Dear Andrew,

    so far the solution with include file (as model file) worked fine. So I was able to run it well, and to extract all the data I want.

    However, now I switched to MC, and I do not get the outputs in maestro anymore. Is there a trick?

    Using now ICADVM20.50.22.

    Bye Stephan

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago in reply to StephanWeber

    Hi Stephan,

    There is a mechanism, but it's not fully-released, which is why I suggested you could need to contact customer support for this. Then we can a) ensure that a request to have it fully released is made on the behalf of your company and we can assess whether the early-access version can be provided in the meantime. If you do log a support case, please ask the AE to contact me for the background in case they are not familiar with it.

    Andrew

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