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Message started by rfx on Jul 10^th, 2004, 10:15am

Title: simulating HSPICE netlist with Spectre
Post by rfx on Jul 10^th, 2004, 10:15am

I want to simulate HSPICE netlist with Spectre.

1) Is it possible to simulate a HSPICE netlist with
Spectre (or SpecterXXX) without changing anything in the HSPICE netlist?

2) I have tried to use (unsuccessfull by far)
spectrespp
spp -convert -iofile inp.sp out.scs

I got follwoing error message;
------------------------------------------------------------------------
//--INFORMATION--// SPICE Reader : MDL @version 1.2.2 01/31/2003

//--ERROR--// SPICE Reader : "hspice.sp", Line 3 : Dot card .net is an unknown control card and will be commented out.

//--FATAL ERROR--// SPICE Reader : "hspice.sp", Line 16 : Syntax error caused by "opt1(".

spectre (ver. 5.0.0.060503 -- 05 Jun 2003).
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Any advice OR suggestion is welcome!

Thanks,

(PS. People familiar with Eldo, I am looking for an option
in Spectre like in eldo; >eldo -compat -i inp.sp)

Title: Re: simulating HSPICE netlist with Spectre
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jul 13^th, 2004, 2:18am

You should try IC5141 (now released) where you can do:

Code:

spectre -csfe hspice.ckt

It has pretty good compatibility (-csfe tells spectre to use
the new front end, which can natively parse both spectre and SPICE netlists).

Andrew.

Title: Re: simulating HSPICE netlist with Spectre
Post by rfx on Jul 13^th, 2004, 7:48am

Thanks Andrew.

Title: Re: simulating HSPICE netlist with Spectre
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jul 14^th, 2004, 5:45am

Just realised I made a typo. It should have said:

Code:

spectre +csfe hspice.ckt

i.e. it should be +csfe not -csfe.

Andrew.