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Insufficient memory in PNOISE simulation

Massoud THDN
Massoud THDN over 13 years ago
I'm trying to do phase noise analysis with PSS HB and PNOISE for post layout extracted netlist. I got the following error:
 

Mem Used: 12813.8 MB (Memory Exhausted)
Fatal error found by spectre at freq = 10 MHz during PNoise analysis `pnoise'.
    FATAL (CMI-2002): Insufficient memory available. To reduce memory, please refer to "spectre -h memory".

 

However, I have near 45GB free memory! Why PNOISE cannot use all the available memory? How can I reduce required memory?

I have already reduced parasitics in my netlist and by reducing more I will loose accuracy.

I'm Using Cadence 6.1.5 and MMSIM 10.11. I have enabled 64bits.

Here is my Circuit inventory:
              nodes 131756
              bsim4 1724 
          bsource_1 141  
          bsource_2 282  
          bsource_3 30   
          bsource_4 30   
          bsource_5 2    
          bsource_6 8    
          bsource_7 4    
          bsource_8 4    
          bsource_9 1    
          capacitor 1313 
              diode 35   
           inductor 322  
            isource 2    
    mutual_inductor 8    
           resistor 203266
            vsource 6 

 

 analysis('pss ?engine "Harmonic Balance"  ?flexbalance "yes"  ?oversamplefactor ""  
        ?fund "5G"  ?harms "50"  ?errpreset "conservative"  ?tstab "20n"  
        ?oscana t  ?p "/outn"  ?n "/outp"  ?oscmethod ""  
        ?step ""  ?write ""  ?writefinal ""  ?swapfile ""  
        ?checkpss ""  ?ppv ""  ?backtracking ""  )
analysis('pnoise ?sweeptype "relative"  ?relharmnum "1"  ?start "10M"  
        ?stop "100M"  ?dec "5"  ?maxsideband "20"  ?p "/b_outp"  
        ?n "/b_outn"  ?oprobe ""  ?iprobe ""  ?refsideband ""  
        ?solver "turbo"  ?oscsolver "turbo"  ?augmented ""  ?annotate "steps"  
        ?ppv ""  )

envOption(
    'cmd64bit  t
    'analysisOrder  list("pss" "pnoise")
)
option( ?categ 'turboOpts
    'numThreads  "5"
    'uniMode  "APS"
)

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  • Massoud THDN
    Massoud THDN over 13 years ago

     Hi Andrew,

    I'm Using Cadence 6.1.5 and MMSIM 10.11. I have enabled 64bits.

     

    I'm trying to do phase noise analysis with PSS HB and PNOISE for post layout extracted netlist. I got the following error:

     
    Mem Used: 12813.8 MB (Memory Exhausted)
    Fatal error found by spectre at freq = 10 MHz during PNoise analysis `pnoise'.
        FATAL (CMI-2002): Insufficient memory available. To reduce memory, please refer to "spectre -h memory".

     

    However, I have near 45GB free memory! Why PNOISE cannot use all the available memory? How can I reduce required memory?

     

    Here is my Circuit inventory:
                  nodes 131756
                  bsim4 1724 
              bsource_1 141  
              bsource_2 282  
              bsource_3 30   
              bsource_4 30   
              bsource_5 2    
              bsource_6 8    
              bsource_7 4    
              bsource_8 4    
              bsource_9 1    
              capacitor 1313 
                  diode 35   
               inductor 322  
                isource 2    
        mutual_inductor 8    
               resistor 203266
                vsource 6 

     

     analysis('pss ?engine "Harmonic Balance"  ?flexbalance "yes"  ?oversamplefactor ""  
            ?fund "5G"  ?harms "50"  ?errpreset "conservative"  ?tstab "20n"  
            ?oscana t  ?p "/outn"  ?n "/outp"  ?oscmethod ""  
            ?step ""  ?write ""  ?writefinal ""  ?swapfile ""  
            ?checkpss ""  ?ppv ""  ?backtracking ""  )
    analysis('pnoise ?sweeptype "relative"  ?relharmnum "1"  ?start "10M"  
            ?stop "100M"  ?dec "5"  ?maxsideband "20"  ?p "/b_outp"  
            ?n "/b_outn"  ?oprobe ""  ?iprobe ""  ?refsideband ""  
            ?solver "turbo"  ?oscsolver "turbo"  ?augmented ""  ?annotate "steps"  
            ?ppv ""  )

    envOption(
        'cmd64bit  t
        'analysisOrder  list("pss" "pnoise")
    )
    option( ?categ 'turboOpts
        'numThreads  "5"
        'uniMode  "APS"
    )

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  • Massoud THDN
    Massoud THDN over 13 years ago

     Hi Andrew,

    I'm Using Cadence 6.1.5 and MMSIM 10.11. I have enabled 64bits.

     

    I'm trying to do phase noise analysis with PSS HB and PNOISE for post layout extracted netlist. I got the following error:

     
    Mem Used: 12813.8 MB (Memory Exhausted)
    Fatal error found by spectre at freq = 10 MHz during PNoise analysis `pnoise'.
        FATAL (CMI-2002): Insufficient memory available. To reduce memory, please refer to "spectre -h memory".

     

    However, I have near 45GB free memory! Why PNOISE cannot use all the available memory? How can I reduce required memory?

     

    Here is my Circuit inventory:
                  nodes 131756
                  bsim4 1724 
              bsource_1 141  
              bsource_2 282  
              bsource_3 30   
              bsource_4 30   
              bsource_5 2    
              bsource_6 8    
              bsource_7 4    
              bsource_8 4    
              bsource_9 1    
              capacitor 1313 
                  diode 35   
               inductor 322  
                isource 2    
        mutual_inductor 8    
               resistor 203266
                vsource 6 

     

     analysis('pss ?engine "Harmonic Balance"  ?flexbalance "yes"  ?oversamplefactor ""  
            ?fund "5G"  ?harms "50"  ?errpreset "conservative"  ?tstab "20n"  
            ?oscana t  ?p "/outn"  ?n "/outp"  ?oscmethod ""  
            ?step ""  ?write ""  ?writefinal ""  ?swapfile ""  
            ?checkpss ""  ?ppv ""  ?backtracking ""  )
    analysis('pnoise ?sweeptype "relative"  ?relharmnum "1"  ?start "10M"  
            ?stop "100M"  ?dec "5"  ?maxsideband "20"  ?p "/b_outp"  
            ?n "/b_outn"  ?oprobe ""  ?iprobe ""  ?refsideband ""  
            ?solver "turbo"  ?oscsolver "turbo"  ?augmented ""  ?annotate "steps"  
            ?ppv ""  )

    envOption(
        'cmd64bit  t
        'analysisOrder  list("pss" "pnoise")
    )
    option( ?categ 'turboOpts
        'numThreads  "5"
        'uniMode  "APS"
    )

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