Help me measure INL and DNL in Hspice (memory issues)

[ilter]

Dear,
I am doing 12 bits dac.
I want to mearsure INL and DNL.
My input is below.
VV0 A0 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 2n 4n)
VV1 A1 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 4n 8n)
VV2 A2 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 8n 16n)
VV3 A3 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 16n 32n)

VV4 A4 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 32n 64n)
VV5 A5 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 64n 128n)
VV6 A6 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 128n 256n)
VV7 A7 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 256n 512n)
VV8 A8 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 512n 1024n)
VV9 A9 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 1024n 2048n)
VV10 A10 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 2048n 4096n)
VV11 A11 0 pulse (1.8V 0V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 4096n 8192n)

VV12 CLK 0 pulse (0V 1.8V 0n 0.1n 0.1n 1n 2n)

I want to run hspice.But it say no free disk.But I see that I still have 14 GB.
I think may be convergence.
How do I do that I can run smoothly?
Thanks.

 

[ezt]

spice .option probe

Hi ilter.
I can't understand your problem exactly. Did you open the sp file from your hard disk? Or maybe there's a problem with addressing. All your addresses should be in DOS format, i.e. no space in your file address. But I have never had any error like yours.
If you still have the same problem, please send your netlist and/or your output lis file.
Good luck.

Regards,
EZT

 

[ilter]

.unprotect hspice

Hi ilter.
I can't understand your problem exactly. Did you open the sp file from your hard disk? Or maybe there's a problem with addressing. All your addresses should be in DOS format, i.e. no space in your file address. But I have never had any error like yours.
If you still have the same problem, please send your netlist and/or your output lis file.
Good luck.

Regards,
EZT

Dear EZT,
Yes,I can open the sp file from my hard disk.I can run my hspice.It won't run finishly. I think it maybe convergence question.Thanks.

 

[jacobliu]

how to reduce hspice file size

what is your work environment?

 

[ilter]

option probe in hspice

what is your work environment?

I run in work station or pc hspice.
The result is the same.
Thanks.

 

[Btrend]

.options probe hspice

what's the error message u got ?
I had check ur an.lis file, but it seem that the final error were not listed yet.
1. u can reduce the file size by probe some node first, i.e.
remove/comment the line
* .option post = 2
and a a line
.option probe
2. reduce the *.lis file by
.protect
.lib '.\rf018.l' tt
.unprotect


try it again!

 

[yen]

options probe hspice

what's the error message u got ?
I had check ur an.lis file, but it seem that the final error were not listed yet.
1. u can reduce the file size by probe some node first, i.e.
remove/comment the line
* .option post = 2
and a a line
.option probe
2. reduce the *.lis file by
.protect
.lib '.\rf018.l' tt
.unprotect
try it again!

I have a question.
.protect and .unprotect means?
.option post =2 means?
Thanks.

 

[tuza2000]

limiting lis file size in hspice

.protect and .unprotect-->not print model in *.lis

 

[Btrend]

rf018.l

.option post =2 means?[

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[Hughes]

hspice question

you may add an option "probe" and and .probe statement:
.option probe
.probe i(rr1)

 

[adam79416]

hspice question

good topic. but i just wanna some point.