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Several Problems on Monte Carlo Analysis using OCEAN

winever
winever over 12 years ago

Hi, everybody!

I have several problems on Monte Carlo Analysis using OCEAN. Hope somebody can give me a hand. I really appreciate it.

The first problem is how to specify a seed when doing Monte Carlo analysis. I tried the command monteCarlo( ?seed "2" ?numIters "3" ...) and the Monte Carlo analysis ran successfully. But I am not sure whether it is right, because in the OCEAN reference, the monteCarlo() command do not have an argument like ?seed "2".  By the way, what should be taken into consideration when choosing the value of the seed?  Can I choose it arbitrarily?

The second problem is how to select and process the result of certain run of a Monte Carlo analysis. For example, after a Monte Carlo analysis is done, I get some files, such as ac.ac , mc1-001_ac.ac , mc1-002_ac.ac , mc1-003_ac.ac and so on. How can I select the result of certain run? Say, the result of the first iteration. I tried the command selectResult( 'ac ) , and then plot() , but three curves were plotted corresponding to the three iterations of Monte Carlo analysis. Then I tried the command  selectResult( "ac-ac" ) , and then plot() , only the result of the nominal run before the Monte Carlo analysis was plotted.

The third problem is that can I run an analysis using the input.scs. If the answer is yes, how can I do it? It seems that the input.scs is similar to the .sp file in Hspice. So I guess it can be used to run an analysis. However, I tried the command spectre input.scs ,and it ran successfully. But no result was plotted or saved. Even the psf file was not created. 

 

Regards,

Winever.

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    winever over 12 years ago

    It really works, Andrew. Thank you so much for help me a lot. I really appreciate it.

     

    Best regards,

    Winever.

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    winever over 12 years ago

    It really works, Andrew. Thank you so much for help me a lot. I really appreciate it.

     

    Best regards,

    Winever.

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