How to save only the power information of certain circuits?

You must be using an old version, because nowadays there's a second tab on the Save Options form:

This allows you to save Power information (and others) for a given depth for particular instances.

In older versions, this was accessed via Outputs→To Be Saved→Select By Subckt Inst - the UI was embedded in the ADE outputs pane then.

Andrew

You must be using an old version, because nowadays there's a second tab on the Save Options form:

This allows you to save Power information (and others) for a given depth for particular instances.

In older versions, this was accessed via Outputs→To Be Saved→Select By Subckt Inst - the UI was embedded in the ADE outputs pane then.

Andrew

Wow!Thank you! But I find a strange phenomenon. When I choose a subcktinst which doesn't contain subcktinsts in it. For exmaple, the buffer I27. The simulation is OK. Power information is saved successfully.

But when I choose a subcktinst which contains subcktinsts in it, a fatal error will be reported. For example, the SAR_logic2 I0. It contains many subcktinsts (logic gate, DFF, etc). "Error detected in file `analyses.cc' at line 4305" will be reported.

I tryed to find 'analyses.cc'. But I didn't find this file.

I tryed to set 'depth'. When depth is 1 or 2, the simulation is OK but no power information is saved. When depth is other integer, for example 0, 3, 4, the fatal error will be reported. 

This problem really troubles me.

Which Spectre version are you running? The precise version number is shown at the top of the simulator log file.

analyses.cc is part of the simulator source code, so you won't find it - it's a pointer so that we can know where it's failing.

Andrew.

Here is it.

It's quite likely that whatever issue you're seeing will have been fixed by using a more recent version; you're using Spectre from 7.5 years ago, I suggest you move to using a SPECTRE211 (21.1) release.

Andrew

All right. But I can only use this version now. Can this error be solved in this version? Thank you!

I found a report which discussed that this error had been fixed in a later hotfix of Spectre (MMSIM151 ISR14) - but I doubt you have that either.

I don't have the time to try to reproduce the problem in the old, very unsupported version you're using to try to find a workaround. Sorry - the best solution is absolutely to use a more up to date version.

Andrew

All right! Still thank you！