How do I to speicfy a list of external parameters and pass it to ADE L for simulations?

I don't know how to directly point at a file but something like the following SKILL code lets you add design variables to the ADE-L GUI:

session_id = asiGetSession(hiGetCurrentWindow())

old_variables = asiGetDesignVarList(session_id) ;; if you want the existing variables

;; to set variables, create a list of name, value pairs like

new_variables = list( list("MYVAR1" "3.2") list("MYVAR2" "123"))

;; and then

asiSetDesignVarList(session_id new_variables)

you could write SKILL code that access the existing list, updates/appends to it from the contents of a file, and then writes it back to the session.  If you or a coworker are proficient in SKILL then maybe the above small example will point you in the right direction or at least the right section of the manuals.

-Dan

I don't know how to directly point at a file but something like the following SKILL code lets you add design variables to the ADE-L GUI:

session_id = asiGetSession(hiGetCurrentWindow())

old_variables = asiGetDesignVarList(session_id) ;; if you want the existing variables

;; to set variables, create a list of name, value pairs like

new_variables = list( list("MYVAR1" "3.2") list("MYVAR2" "123"))

;; and then

asiSetDesignVarList(session_id new_variables)

you could write SKILL code that access the existing list, updates/appends to it from the contents of a file, and then writes it back to the session.  If you or a coworker are proficient in SKILL then maybe the above small example will point you in the right direction or at least the right section of the manuals.

-Dan

In addition to Dan's suggestion, you could probably also just have an include file (with a .scs suffix) that you include via Setup->Model Libraries with:

parameters C0=1p C1=2p C2=0.5p

although the main challenge might be if ADE auto-discovers the missing variables and adds them in ADE too. I didn't check to see how this behaves in ADE L (and I can't remember off the top of my head).

Andrew

I'm pretty sure during netlisting the missing variables are identified and put into the GUI with blank values.  I don't quite recall what ends up in the netlist at that point.

Just tested this, and it works OK provided you go to Simulation->Options->Analog and on the Check tab change redefinedparams to ignore or warning. What happens is that ADE discovers the variables, but it's netlisted as:

parameters C0 C1 C2 C3
include "extra.scs"

(where extra.scs had my hand-written parameters statement). Because the extra.scs is included after the parameter definitions from ADE, then the value specified in the extra.scs wins (even if a value had been set in ADE).

Andrew