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ADEL - spectre , DC analysis writefinal param is ignored

marcelpreda

Hi there,

I'm running a DC analysis in spectre , setup done in ADEL gui. I set writefinal as "my_dc_spectre.fc" to save the nodeset values, but this options seems to be ignored, no file is created.

Any idea if it is a bug, or it is ignored by intention? 

"sub-version  IC6.1.7-64b.500.8.EHF2985 "

I've saved the session as ocean script, those are the params:

analysis('dc ?anaName "dc"  ?saveOppoint t  ?saveopinfinal t 
  ?readns "my_tran_spectre.fc"  ?write ""  ?writefinal "my_dc_spectre.fc"  ?save "all" 
  ?oppoint "rawfile"  ?maxiters "150"  ?maxsteps "10000"  ?annotate "status" 
  ?threshold "0.0"  ?detail "node"  ?sort "name"  )

What I've noticed is that setting additionalParams="writefinal=my_dc_spectre.fc" in ADEL  does the job (the file is created). But I would prefer to not use aditionalParams .

This is what I get saving the session this session as ocean script:

analysis('dc ?anaName "dc"  ?saveOppoint t  ?saveopinfinal t 
  ?readns "my_tran_spectre.fc"  ?write ""  ?writefinal "my_dc_spectre.fc"  ?save "all" 
  ?oppoint "rawfile"  ?maxiters "150"  ?maxsteps "10000"  ?annotate "status" 
  ?threshold "0.0"  ?detail "node"  ?sort "name"  ?additionalParams "writefinal=my_dc_spectre.fc"  )

Thanks,

Marcel

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  • Hi Marcel,

    writefinal only really makes sense when you're doing a sweep. Otherwise it's identical to write. That's because write is performed after the initial DC solution, and writefinal is done at the end of the sweep - if there's no sweep, it would be the same as whatever write outputs.

    So, ADE handles this by only outputting writefinal if you have a sweep enabled. Conversely, it adds the write statement on a DC sweep only if the "Save DC Operating Point" is unchecked; if it was checked, it adds the write statement on the dcOp analysis.

    In your case you're not doing a sweep, so the right thing to do would be to use ?write. Is there a reason why you can't do that?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for clarification,  it make sense.

    I'll use the ?write option.

    BR,

    Marcel

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