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Message started by anirban on Jun 10^th, 2009, 2:58am

Title: spectre to spice conversion
Post by anirban on Jun 10^th, 2009, 2:58am

Hi

I have a spectre netlist and for some verification purpose I want to convert it to spice format. Can anybody tell me how to do that? Thanks in advance

Anirban

Title: Re: spectre to spice conversion
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Jun 11^th, 2009, 6:41am

Some things are easy to convert; some things may be impossible.

Are you looking for a script to do it automatically? Is it small enough you can do it by hand? I assume you know how to translate
V1 (n1 n2) vsource dc=5
Are you looking for help with transistor models?

Title: Re: spectre to spice conversion
Post by anirban on Jun 11^th, 2009, 9:02pm

Yeah I am looking for a script to do it automatically because it is huge parasitic netlist. It will be a great help for me.

Title: Re: spectre to spice conversion
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Jun 12^th, 2009, 10:36am

I think you need to learn perl. I don't have a script to do what you need, though I have written several that do similar things.

Title: Re: spectre to spice conversion
Post by cmos.analogvala on Jun 13^th, 2009, 9:41am

Try following command ...
spp -convert < spicenetlist.sp > spectrenietlist.scs

*** Don't omit < >
-CA

Title: Re: spectre to spice conversion
Post by pancho_hideboo on Jun 15^th, 2009, 2:11am

cmos.analogvala wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009, 9:41am:

Try following command ...
spp -convert < spicenetlist.sp > spectrenietlist.scs

This is not useful at all.
See start of this thread surely. http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1244627881/0#0

anirban wrote on Jun 11^th, 2009, 9:02pm:

Yeah I am looking for a script to do it automatically because it is huge parasitic netlist. It will be a great help for me.

If you have Agilent ADS, see "$HPEESOF_DIR/links/spice/perl/spectre".
There are perl scrips for translating Spectre netlists to ADSsim netlists.
However we can modify these scripts for translating Spectre netlists to HSPICE netlists

http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/Netlist+Translator+for+SPICE+and+Spectre
http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/Importing+a+Netlist+File
http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/Advanced+Methods+for+Importing+Files

Current ADSsim can understand Spectre netlists directly, so perl scrips for translating are not used.