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Redirect Spectre results to buffer

I have written a program which reads in a text formatted tran.tran Spectre results file, analyzes the results, then modifies component parameters within input.scs in attempt to improve circuit behaviour. it does this repeatedly for many iterations.

The problem I am having is that the tran.tran file can be very large, making it time consuming to write and read a result file on the disk. I would like to know if it is possible to redirect Spectre's output to a memory buffer which my program could read from, avoiding the overhead of hard disk IO.

Khenglish over 10 years ago

I ended up working around this issue by stopping spectre from saving every node in the tran.tran file at every timestep.

in input.scs:

saveOptions options save=selected

Now the simulation literally runs twice as fast.
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Khenglish over 9 years ago

Writing and reading the tran.tran file is leading to some issues with the Linux file system. I would still like to be able to write to a buffer than can be read by an external program to circumvent the file system. Is that possible?
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