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ADEXL and Montecarlo : 'global' PSF file creation

MicheleA

Hi all,

I have a *very long* MC run which is taking far more than expected. It simulated some 1000 points already and I would like to examine the results. Unfortunately (for a reason that escapes me) the most important parameter is an expression working for normal sweeps but not for MC. Therefore I cannot see what I would like right now.

I will probably be able to 'trick' the simulator after the sim has finished. And now is the question:

--> If I stop the simulation, will ADEXL create a 'top level' PSF from which to extract the istogram of the variable (expression) I need?

I cannot see this PSF database in the root of the simulation right now.

I would like to avoid wasting so many days of simulation so if anybody knows either:

- the answer to the above question, or

- a way of accessing ADEXL results structure in order to create histograms

I would really be grateful :-)

 

Kind Regards,

Michele 

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  • Andrew Beckett said:

    Hi Michele,

    A quick answer because I'm tied up with meetings today so can't really focus on this (so it might be best to go to customer support).

    • The PSF database at the top level should be empty, because it is populated based on what ran - it's actually a set of references to the lower level run results.
    • I would expect you to be able to open a single point run in the results browser, assuming it has finished (doing RMB->Results Browser over the individual run output).
    • Whether you can access the individual run results will depend on whether you have saved family data or not (one of the monte carlo options are).

    Hi Andrew,

    indeed you are right. We could not access the curves because we (on purpose) decided not to save data families. It gets very heavy very quickly with MC.

    Andrew Beckett said:
    • I suspect your problem is caused by the fact that you have dependent expressions using the "ADE L" way of having just the output name referenced rather than using calcVal("outputName"). There are some issues with doing that in ADE XL. If  you used calcVal(), I would expect it to work...

    ...Yeps...We lost that simulation, anyways. Once that specific function is returning an error, of course there is no data saved.

    And you are right again :) : I developed the functions using ADE L/ Calculator. I changed any reference to a previously defined function with CalcVal(function, testbench) and solved the issue.

    By the way, are these differences documented somewhere easily accessible?

    Thanks again!

    Michele

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  • Andrew Beckett said:

    Hi Michele,

    A quick answer because I'm tied up with meetings today so can't really focus on this (so it might be best to go to customer support).

    • The PSF database at the top level should be empty, because it is populated based on what ran - it's actually a set of references to the lower level run results.
    • I would expect you to be able to open a single point run in the results browser, assuming it has finished (doing RMB->Results Browser over the individual run output).
    • Whether you can access the individual run results will depend on whether you have saved family data or not (one of the monte carlo options are).

    Hi Andrew,

    indeed you are right. We could not access the curves because we (on purpose) decided not to save data families. It gets very heavy very quickly with MC.

    Andrew Beckett said:
    • I suspect your problem is caused by the fact that you have dependent expressions using the "ADE L" way of having just the output name referenced rather than using calcVal("outputName"). There are some issues with doing that in ADE XL. If  you used calcVal(), I would expect it to work...

    ...Yeps...We lost that simulation, anyways. Once that specific function is returning an error, of course there is no data saved.

    And you are right again :) : I developed the functions using ADE L/ Calculator. I changed any reference to a previously defined function with CalcVal(function, testbench) and solved the issue.

    By the way, are these differences documented somewhere easily accessible?

    Thanks again!

    Michele

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