[SOLVED] Nanotime- weird behavior

[dhaval4987]

I am trying to do STA of stdcells at 2 different temperatures.

But surprisingly the delay behavior of standard cell at 25 Celsius is exactly same as that of at 125 Celsius. I manually entered ".TEMP 125" in the second case in spice netlist of standard cell. Why is this so? At higher temperature- it is supposed to be a lot slower, right?

Is there any error in defining the parameter?

Thanks,

 

[birdy123]

Hi,

Please try to use like this...

.temp 25c

and

.temp 125c

may be this "c" will help you.

 

[dhaval4987]

nope... didnt work!

I have been trying since 2 days. I dont understand why nanotime doesnt take this temperature info in account?
Is there a way to specify in nanotime?

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has anyone used nanotime? Do you know if there is any method to specify temperature in nanotime?

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Tried by a couple of different ways. So far- I was reading the spice model and the netlist by 2 different commands:

register_netlist {netlist.sp}
read_spice_model -name NAME model.pm

But in the user guide- it says that "You can create a technology in NanoTime by reading a technology file with the read_techfile command, by reading a SPICE model directly with the read_spice_model command, or by reading a SPICE model implicitly with a .lib statement in a SPICE netlist file."

Since I was doing first method already- I tried the other method and unlinked the existing model. used '.lib' statement and BOOM!

It started working.

However- It should work the first way also but dont know why...

Now I can obtain different results at different temperatures. Closing the thread!!!