Simulating *.vams generated from ADE-L in DoT flow

Aarthy,

Yes, this is possible, but it's unclear what  you don't know. Running AMS from the command line with a digital test bench (or doing the same from within ADE) is perfectly possible. You can use "runams" to generate the netlist of your design, and then incorporate that into a command-line "irun" (or "xrun" if using the newer Xcelium simulator).

Note that if you're talking about using VCD inputs in the ADE Simulation Files form, then these can only drive analog nets (even in a mixed-signal simulation), and the names in the info file do need to match those in the netlist. Not quite sure exactly what your issue is.

Maybe it would be better to contact customer support as it may need a bit of back and forth discussion to understand fully what your setup looks like and what you're trying to achieve.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, 

Thank you for your response. The earlier question is to understand whether it is possible to do. 

since this is in the initial phase, I am trying to understand and solve it from discussions & reading, if nothing works I will be contacting customer support for setup. 

In this case I want to use digital test bench in command line to run, with my netlist being a *.vams. 

  * where does the definition of digital modules read from, as now my digital modules are buried deep in the hierarchy. 

  * assuming Including the definition for digital module in the irun options, how does the control transfer between irun and Ultrasim?  is it automated or do I need to define it in amsd control config?

  * When i use ADE-L AMS flow to generate the netlist, the files first line reads something like "for viewing purpose only, don't compile" ? Can i still use this file as my netlist? 

My questions might not be correct, as I am trying to understand the flow from the files generated by ADE-L, but i couldn't find any files with definition of digital files, also there is partition file in */psf which defines all the nets property to be analog/digital/mixed signal. Not sure whether I need to write this file manually? 

   Thank you!  

    Aarthy  

If you are running with the UNL or OSS netlisting flow (Simulation->Netlist and Run Options; UNL is the preferred option nowadays), it will produce a variety of files in the netlist directory, including netlist.vams (the main netlist) and also reference text files using the textInputs file which is passed to irun with -f (the "runSimulation script in the netlist dir takes care of bringing everything together). You can do this from the command line using the "runams" program - this can be used just to netlist, or to netlist and simulate, and the information then goes into a given netlist dir rather than in the usual ADE place. To answer your questions (in the order of your bullet points):

1. This is via the textInputs file in the netlist dir.
2. This is something the simulator takes care of. The analog control file is needed to specify accuracy settings and the duration of the tran analysis (some accuracy controls need to know how long the simulation is expected to run for) - again, this will be in the netlist dir and if running with runams from an ADE state, it will create this for you.
3. All you're doing here is looking at the Simulation->Netlist->Display - which is for display purposes only. It combines several of the files into one place so it can be viewed in one window for debugging purposes - but you're not intended to use that for simulation - the real files are in the netlist dir as I said.

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Andrew, 

Thank you! Now i understand it a bit clear.

Regards, 

Aarthy