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AMS simulation with psfxl_all option, how to open waveform with simvision

Mayzhao
Mayzhao over 6 years ago

Hello,

I am simulating a mixed signal simulation with ADE / irun.

Because of large amount of analig signals to be saved, the waveform (psf.trn) was too huge ~100G, if sst2 output format is used. Simivision is very hard to load up signals and easily crushed.

So I decided to use psfxl and fast viewing extension in ADE -> outputs -> save all -> output options.   In irun command line, I use -amsformat psfxl_all 

If I use gui mode, let simivion pop up during the simultion, the waveform borowing is fine.

However, if I close down the simvision, and look at the psf directory, I see the following 

-rw-r--r--. 1  name rndenv         959 Aug 15 20:05 logFile
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv     3206256 Aug 15 20:05 psf.dsn
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv      222040 Aug 15 20:05 psf.trn
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv     9209100 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv    22233737 Aug 15 19:06 tran.tran.tran.22.sig.tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv    22229919 Aug 15 19:13 tran.tran.tran.23.sig.tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv    22237871 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran.24.sig.tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv    22237865 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran.25.sig.tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 name rndenv 23322023120 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran.dat
-rw-r--r--. 1 namerndenv    22237865 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran.sig
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 name rndenv          25 Aug 15 20:04 tran.tran.tran.sig.tmp -> tran.tran.tran.25.sig.tmp

I tried  " simvision psf.trn " in the command line, in simvision I only can see the design herirachy and signal names, but no any waves . from the data size, seems  tran.tran.tran.dat is largest.

I tried "simvision tran.tran.tran.dat" it says "File format not support"

My question is , what is the correct way to open the wave with simivison in command line.

Thanks a lot.

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