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Message started by jobless on Jan 12^th, 2007, 5:51am

Title: how to convert spectre netlist to hspice netlist
Post by jobless on Jan 12^th, 2007, 5:51am

is there a way to convert spectre netlist into hspice ?

Title: Re: how to convert spectre netlist to hspice netli
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jan 12^th, 2007, 5:57am

The easiest way would be to write a perl script, but in IC610, you could use File->Import->SPICE (I think that's the menu) which can create a real schematic from a spectre netlist, and then you could netlist that in the hspiceD interface in ADE.

Regards,

Andrew.

Title: Re: how to convert spectre netlist to hspice netli
Post by simon2 on Sep 20^th, 2007, 4:29pm

... try this in Wordpad (although for some search and replace functions, Word might be better)

***************************************************************************
*** Spectre to Hspice
*** // **
*** \ <return> +
*** Inn Xnn
*** subckt .sub
*** ends .ends
*** resistor r= (empty)
*** capacitor c= (empty)
*** sa, sb, sca, scb (comment out) NB: ignored in Spectre & Hspice
*** scc in MOS (comment out) NB: ignored in Spectre & Hspice
*** (Vdc3/2) 'Vdc3/2' brackets ( ) to single quotes ' '
*** Rnn n1 n2 rppolywo XRnn n1 n2 rppolywo
***************************************************************************

You may have to write a subckt for XRnn depending on the foundry model files you are using.

I find the above covers most cases.

Cheers,
SimonH.