RE: change temperature in one single transient simulation
Hi Dimitra, Great! It works perfectly! By the way, the tscale is for temperature. Do you happen to know how to write for a voltage or current parameters? Thanks again. andrew
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Thanks Dimitra for the correction. Serves me right for trying to answer this quickly without actually checking! BTW Andrew, this is documented if you look at "spectre -h tran" - it explains the format...
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At SEMICON West, there always seems to be a theme. Last year, it was China. See my post SEMICON: China, China, China for what I wrote this time last yearr. In fact, I was so convinced that something...
View ArticleRE: change temperature in one single transient simulation
Hi Andrew, Thanks for clarification and all are working for me now:) Great help! Andrew
View ArticleRE: Plotting generated waveforms in the same subwindow as simulated waveforms
These solved all of my problems! I don't even need to bother with the solutions I posted earlier in the thread. Thanks so much!!
View ArticleRE: Vector net cannot be connected to a Spice/Spectre instance by port name.
Hi Andrew, Thank you. It is only about using AMS-Spectre for post-layout simulation in Mixed-mode, while the netlist included the extracted RC parasitics. I think my netlist is not consistent with what...
View ArticleRE: hiRegTimer is not calling my procedure
hi Andrew, I tried to debug with SKILL IDE tool and it show clearly that it didn't call my procedure i include my 3 procedure: procedure(yhwInfo(yhwText) let((cv winBox edgeAdjustX edgeAdjustY...
View ArticleRE: Change shape color while editing
Paul, It must be a setting I am missing. I needed to update a footprint in my library and when I drag the Place Bound Top shape it does change to red. Try the same in the board file and it is black. I...
View ArticleInconsistency in maestro result DB using SKILL
Hello, I have two maestro views from which I extract my outputs using SKILL. Each view is in a different virtuoso version. The SKILL code used is the same in both versions: ; get session Id sessId =...
View ArticleRE: hiRegTimer is not calling my procedure
Hi Tony, From this, I'm not sure how you can conclude that it didn't call your function - assuming you're single stepping in the debugger, it wouldn't single step into the callback in hiRegTimer...
View ArticleRE: Inconsistency in maestro result DB using SKILL
Hi Karam, Are we supposed to guess which versions you're using? i.e. the version that works and the version that doesn't? I for one am not going to do lots of experiments to try to figure if there's a...
View ArticleRE: Vector net cannot be connected to a Spice/Spectre instance by port name.
Hi Nami, That didn't tell me any more than you said before - you just used slightly different words to say the same thing. You also didn't answer whether you can contact customer support, which would...
View ArticleRE: Inconsistency in maestro result DB using SKILL
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your reply. I thought you might be aware of this, but no need to guess the versions The code works on 12.3-64b.8 and doesn't work on 12.3-64b.500.20. Apologies for the lack...
View ArticleRE: Vector net cannot be connected to a Spice/Spectre instance by port name.
Hi Andrew, I Which version of the IC tools you're using Virtuoso 6.1.7-64b Which version of the simulator (INCISIVE or XCELIUM) you're using I think INCISIVE Which netlisting mode you're using...
View ArticleLayer Bound keeps turning back on
I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem: I de-select the Bound box for a particular etch layer (because I don't like seeing outlines everywhere), but at some point later it gets re-enabled and...
View ArticleRE: Inconsistency in maestro result DB using SKILL
Update: if I "View Results" from the GUI, the code at least returns the correct value for calcVal( .. ) . maeOpenResults( .. ) does not change anything
View ArticleRE: Vector net cannot be connected to a Spice/Spectre instance by port name.
Iman, You still didn't answer my question about contacting customer support, you gave very imprecise version numbers (6.1.7.64-64b converts 21 different subversions) and you didn't say which INCISIVE...
View ArticleLarge Signal Y-Parameters
Dear All, This thread from a few years ago, https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/rf-design/33221/large-signal-y-parameter-or-s-parameter, concerns large-signal y-parameters. The...
View ArticleRE: hiRegTimer is not calling my procedure
Hi Andrew, You are right, after changing to your line. it works perfectly. Thanks so much Tony
View ArticleForm buttons stop working.
Hi, I have written a checklist program with a form to help checking symbols. This works ok to begin with until at some point I make a modification to the file. After this all of the form buttons stop...
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