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kiran123 Community Member Offline Posts: 42	How to perform Nested Sweep Jun 27^th, 2007, 12:15am Hi Experts, How to declare nested sweep statement in spectre , like suppose i wanted to see graph between V1 Vs V2 Vs V3 simultenously in the same plot In SPICE it is like .DC V1 1 5 0.1 V2 1 5 0.1 V3 1 5 0.1 similarly is there any way to do this in spectre ? Thanks & Regards Kiran
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aamar

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #1 - Jun 29^th, 2007, 8:38am

Hallo,

Do you have the Analog design environment?

you should set a single sweep, and use the other two sources (i.e. V2 and V3 as parameters) and then define parameteric sweeps.

for different variants of plots you can use the function "value" in the calculator.

but take care for the step you are using you will have to run the simulation 40x40 times which is a large number.

best regards,

aamar

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #2 - Jul 2^nd, 2007, 11:25pm

aamar wrote on Jun 29^th, 2007, 8:38am:

Hallo,

Do you have the Analog design environment?

you should set a single sweep, and use the other two sources (i.e. V2 and V3 as parameters) and then define parameteric sweeps.

for different variants of plots you can use the function "value" in the calculator.

but take care for the step you are using you will have to run the simulation 40x40 times which is a large number.

best regards,

aamar

i don't have ADE :( that's why looking for deck statement

Regards
Kiran

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #3 - Jul 4^th, 2007, 2:57am

Hallo Kiran,

Although I am not expert in Spectre Syntax. I use the ADE always, and without reading the manual, I think you should have a look on it too. But my first impression that there is no such a syntax becuase if it is possible it should be possible through the ADE. That's why I tried such a case like the one you are asking about and printed the OCEAN script from the parameteric analysis tool and pasted it here, may be it can help.

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ocnWaveformTool( 'wavescan )
simulator( 'spectre )
design( "./spectre/schematic/netlist/netlist")
resultsDir( "./spectre/schematic" )
modelFile(
'("./spectre/c35/mcparams.scs" "")
'("./spectre/c35/cmos53.scs" "cmostm")
'("./spectre/c35/res.scs" "restm")
'("./spectre/c35/cap.scs" "captm")
'("./spectre/c35/bip.scs" "biptm")
'("./spectre/c35/ind.scs" "indtm")
)

analysis('dc ?param "vsweep" ?start "0" ?stop "3" )
desVar( "vsweep" 0 )
desVar( "vgs_nmos_param" 0.6 )
desVar( "vds_nmos_param" 0 )
desVar( "l" 0.35u )
save( 'i "/MN0/D" "/MN1/D" )
temp( 27 )
paramAnalysis("vgs_nmos_param" ?values '(0 0.75 1.5 2.25 3 )
paramAnalysis("vds_nmos_param" ?values '(0 0.75 1.5 2.25 3 )
))
paramRun()
=================================

Best regards,

aamar

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Geoffrey_Coram

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #4 - Jul 5^th, 2007, 6:42am

kiran123 wrote on Jun 27^th, 2007, 12:15am:

Hi Experts,

How to declare nested sweep statement in spectre , like suppose i wanted to see graph between V1 Vs V2 Vs V3 simultenously in the same plot
In SPICE it is like

.DC V1 1 5 0.1 V2 1 5 0.1 V3 1 5 0.1

similarly is there any way to do this in spectre ?

You could probably do this with the alter command, at least in terms of getting the sims run; then it would depend on your waveform viewer how easy it is to view them simultaneously. Also, it will be a nuisance to write all the alter commands to run the sweeps; you've got 51*51 sweeps there, don't you? So I hope a cadence expert can help with the paramAnalysis statements.

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #5 - Aug 27^th, 2007, 2:24pm

I've got an example somewhere (not at work at the moment) - but the easiest thing is to read the help on the "sweep" analysis in spectre. See "spectre -h sweep". You'll do something of this form:

Code:

sweepv1 sweep param=v1 start=1 stop=5 step=1 {
  sweepv2 sweep param=v2 start=1 stop=5 step=1 {
    dc dc param=v3 start=1 stop=5 step=1
  }
}

(the above is just off the top of my head, so may contain mistakes).

Regards,

Andrew.

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Re: How to perform Nested Sweep
Reply #6 - Aug 28^th, 2007, 4:56am

Andrew,

It should probably be the following. The inner sweep in the first in the .DC, and it should be dev=v1 instead of param=v1

sweepv1 sweep dev=v3 param=dc start=1 stop=5 step=1 { sweepv2 sweep dev=v2 param=dc start=1 stop=5 step=1 { dc dc dev=v1 param=dc start=1 stop=5 step=1 } }

The param=dc is probably not necessary since the default sweep parameter for a vsource is the dc parameter.

Regards,
John

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Andrew Beckett Senior Fellow Offline Life, don't talk to me about Life... Posts: 1742 Bracknell, UK	Re: How to perform Nested Sweep Reply #7 - Sep 2^nd, 2007, 1:00pm John, I was actually assuming that v1, v2, v3 were global parameters, but if instead it was the dc parameter of a voltage source that was being varied, then you're quite correct, of course... Andrew.
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