oermens wrote on Dec 9^th, 2008, 5:10pm:

Show me version correctly by executing the followings.

% spectre -V
% icms -V

% spectre -W
% icms -W

Your version of DFII might be old.

oermens wrote on Dec 9^th, 2008, 5:52pm:

It seems that your versions are OK for both Spectre and DFII.

Execute "spectre -h pss".
Can you confirm "Harmonic Balance parameters" such as followings ?
  harmonicbalance=no
  flexbalance=no

Show me netlist regarding pss statement.

sorry for delay. here is the relevant part of netlist

simulatorOptions options reltol=1e-3 vabstol=1e-6 iabstol=1e-12 temp=25 \
   tnom=25 scalem=1.0 scale=1.0 gmin=1e-12 rforce=1 maxnotes=5 maxwarns=5 \
   digits=5 cols=80 pivrel=1e-3 ckptclock=1800 \
   sensfile="../psf/sens.output" checklimitdest=psf
sweeppss  sweep  dev=V7  param=dc  start=-0.55  stop=0.95
+         lin=10  {
 pss  (  net018  net036  )  pss  flexbalance=yes  fund=2G  harms=7
+      errpreset=moderate  tstab=150n  saveinit=yes  cmin=1f
+      annotate=status

 pnoise  (  net018  net036  )  pnoise  sweeptype=relative
+         relharmnum=1  start=0.01M  stop=100M  dec=20  maxsideband=7
+         annotate=status
}

input.scllog:spectre (ver. 5.10.41_USR5.053107 -- 31 May 2007).

from spectre.out:

Environment variable:
   SPECTRE_DEFAULTS=-I/***/IC/tools/dfII/local/lib/cmosp13/../../Spectre/models -f psfbin
Command line:
   /***/IC/tools.sun4v/spectre/bin/32bit/spectre -env  \
       artist5.1.0 +escchars +log ../psf/spectre.out +inter=mpsc  \
       +mpssession=spectre0_2856_18 -format sst2 -raw ../psf  \
       -I/***/models  \
       +lqtimeout 900 input.scs

from recent CDSlogs logfile

\o Program:             @(#)$CDS: icfb.exe version 5.1.0 06/20/2007 02:40 (cicsun11) $
\o Hierarchy:           /*/cadence.2007a/IC.5141.USR5/tools.sun4v/dfII/
\o Sub version:         sub-version 5.10.41_USR5.90.69 (32-bit addresses)
\o Host name (type):    * (sun4u)
\o Operating system:    SunOS 5.10 Generic_137111-08
\o X display name:      :0.0
\o X server:            Sun Microsystems, Inc.
\o Depth of Visual (Root):      8 (24)
\o Number of Planes Used:       8
\o X version:           11.0 (vendor release 6620)


i was reading something online and found that there are 2 spectre's - 1 as part of IC and one part of MMSIM. how do I know which one I'm using? i don't see any references to mmsim in relation to spectre in any log file, so i'm using IC?

What should I change? In our startup script, MMSIM comes before IC.

Code:

#MMSIM
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/pkg/bin
PATH=$PATH:$CDS_TOP_DIR/MMSIM/tools/bin

#IC
PATH=$PATH:$CDS_HOME/tools/bin
PATH=$PATH:$CDS_HOME/tools/dfII/bin
PATH=$PATH:$CDS_HOME/tools/dfII/local/bin 

($CDS_HOME = $CDS_TOP_DIR/IC)

when I type 'which spectre' it finds it in $CDS_TOP_DIR/MMSIM/tools/bin/, but when spectre is invoked in ADE, it chooses $CDS_HOME/tools.sun4v/spectre/bin/32bit/

i'll talk to my admin on monday. should i suggest switching from the IC stream to MMSIM stream? if so, how will that affect the functionality of other tools? besides my lab, we have an undergrad course next semester which will be using cadence and i don't want to mess around with the tools unless we know excatly what to change.

in the mean time, i've got flexbalance working by using ocean to execute all the commands. the results are close (within less than 1dB) between shooting and flexbalance at the points of interest. i am running over ssh and can't export display (disabled by admin), so i'm using ocean -nograph. i've started learning a bit of scripting, now i can run PSS+PNOISE and export to .ps to see results. is it possible to do the following?

run pss+pnoise using shooting
plot pnoise to new window, hold the result
run pss+pnoise using flexbalance
append pnoise to previous window
print result to ps

(i guess i should start a new thread related to ocean now)

Hi,
I have the same problem as oermens.
I'm running Cadence ICv5.1.41USR5 in centOS.
I need to simulate with spectre from MMSIM, but ADE always chooses spectre from cds/IC.
I have configured the environment variables as described in this forum (mmsim path appears before IC path in bashrc) but still, spectre runs from IC. Do you know what can I be possibly doing wrong?
Thank you.
Monica