Does anyone know how to using spectre artisn to run Hspice netlist. Now I use the calibre to extraction the circuit, The output format is hspice netlist. I want to cosim using spectre, Does anyone know this flow ? How do I do it ? Thanks.
Anydocument or example.
I supose that you are looking for a way to simulate an SPICE netlist with spectre.
If this is the case, you should tranlate the spice netlist to spectre netlist with "spp" program that comes with spectre. This is spice pre processor of spectre, since spectre accepts spice netlist as well as spectre netlist. This program will generate an spectre netlist but you should fully check the worinings and errors.
Maybe you had to make some minor corrections on spice netlist to have good specre netlist.
I also recomend to fully verify the erros/warnings when you run specre on this netlist.
I use IC5141. This version can cosim with hsoice and spectre. It don't need to transfer the hspice to spectre. But I don't find any document with the feature. Does anyone have know the feature or document with IC5141 ? Thanks
You could write the statement of "simulator lang=spice" in the front of the model file with hspice, which change the simulator from Spectre to Hspice. But you must write "simulator lang=spectre" after the statements of ".include model_file", which change simulator back to Spectre again. Do you understand me?
I use IC5141. This version can cosim with hsoice and spectre. It don't need to transfer the hspice to spectre. But I don't find any document with the feature. Does anyone have know the feature or document with IC5141 ?
1. You can use spp to convert the spice netlist to native spectre format; or
2. You can use spectrespp command to simulate the spice netlist: spectrespp yourdesign.sp
The "simulator lang=spectre" statement is not needed if the spice netlist file's extension is ".sp" (actually, any thing other than ".scs")
The document is "Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator User Guide".