There are probably a few different ways to do this:

1) check the netlisting options available -- sometimes, even if the default is Spectre, you can ask for HSpice or CDSSpice or something that looks a lot more like standard spice, at least for simple circuits

2) write a translation script that converts Spectre to spice format:
m1 (d g s b) modName w=1u l=1u
just needs the parentheses removed, I think.

You'll need to do basic translation on the model libraries, too;
model nch bsim3v3
would become
.model nch nmos level=??
and you'd have to check your winspice documentation to see what level to use, and whether all the primitive models you need are available (eg, BSIM4 is not built into Berkeley Spice 3f5).

neiyan,

The netlisting doesn't touch the model files - it just includes them (well, with cdsSpice it does some macro replacement and slight format modification, but I doubt you'd be using cdsSpice). Most likely if you're going to want SPICE syntax, you'd use the hspiceD interface.

So you'll need to either translate the model files into a syntax that winspice (or whatever) can handle, or get the supplier to provide them in that format.

Essentially this is what Geoffrey said in his append.

Regards,

Andrew

by the way, about the hSpiceD, how do i know if its installed? because in Simulator/Directory/Host, it is not listed as one of the simulators..if so, do i need to install it or could i use one of the installed simulators (cdsSpice, spectre, spectreS, <other verilog simulators>)?

For hspiceD, you need to be using at least IC5033 or later. Also, it probably needs the 32760 FEATURE in your license file to work...

Andrew.