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Message started by svenn on Aug 17^th, 2006, 9:37am

Title: spectremdl and the future ...
Post by svenn on Aug 17^th, 2006, 9:37am

Hi,
I experience a severe performance problem with OCEAN and have chosen to experiment with spectre and spectremdl on the command line to be able to get some simulation results faster. I see that the spectremdl internal functions are a bit better documented in the MMSIM stream than it was in whatever the old one was named. For a while wavescan informs me that SKILL is now the default mode when it starts and I forget that -expr mdl. This make me wonder a bit about the future of the mdl simulator scripting feature. Will Cadence drop it eventually and force users to script everything in SKILL?

Title: Re: spectremdl and the future ...
Post by Andrew Beckett on Aug 20^th, 2006, 3:44pm

Hi Svenn,

No. SpectreMDL is alive and well, and being enhanced. Lots of customers are using it. So it is not going away.

When wavescan was integrated into ADE, the decision was taken that trying to translate existing SKILL (or OCEAN) expressions to MDL was too hard - and so there are two calculator modes, SKILL and MDL.

The trouble was that the majority of users expected wavescan to have the same syntax in ADE as standalone, so the default was changed.

Regards,

Andrew.

Title: Re: spectremdl and the future ...
Post by jbdavid on Aug 30^th, 2006, 1:21am

of course a big problem with mdl is that its not an open standard..