Have spectre or OCEAN print selected dcOpInfo for a subcircuit or matching expression

Hi,

something I thought would not be so difficult is actually proving hard. Or, at least, not immediate as i thought.

The goal: collect selected dcOpInfo into a file, for subsequent checking. Imagining that the circuit under test is not small, it is interesting to be able to focus to - say - all NMOS of a certain subcircuit in the hierarchy, or all MOS, or all MOS whose name matches some basic wildcard expression of the type used, for instance, in SAVE statements by Spectre.

I have at first tried with the print statement, available in Spectre. There is however no mention of possibilities to use wildcard expressions so creating the statement ad-hoc would be a too time consuming and not reusable.

I then tried to leverage the save options of the dcOpInfo analysis, however I could not "tame" its output: even if I ask to save only certain devices (here I can use wildcarding effectively), the file still contains a whole lot of information that kind of defeats the purpose.

I had a brief look at MDL but I could not find an easy way through to specify groups of devices for measurement.

I then found in this Forum a citation of the OCEAN report() function. This approaches what I need, because one can choose the type of output as "bjt" or "mmsim3v3" or whatever, for MOS devices. Again, however, the parameter name does not seem to allow wildcarding of any kind.

Do you have any suggestion on how to approach this task? Right now what I resorted to do is to use report() for the whole set of MOS devices in my design, then grep and manipulate to streamline the output. It kinda works, but is certainly not elegant and I'm pretty sure there must be a better way.

Regards,

Michele