This is probably more of an Ocean-related question than anything else, but I hope someone can help!

I basically just want to 1) run a batch of transient simulations, each of which uses a different pwl file to control a stimulus, and then 2) export the data from each run to files with a matlab-friendly format for post-processing.  Part 1) works, part 2) does not.

I am using an Ocean script to orchestrate everything.

1)   (WORKING) To run the simulations, I am using alter statements, similar to the advice of MightyMouse in this thread:
http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/?board=circuit;action=display;num=110806886...
The only catch is that I am (mis?)using the stimulusFile() command in Ocean to include a custom file in input.scs, which actually has all the "alter" commands in it.  But I don't think that is a problem.  All this actually seem to be working.  When I run my Ocean script, multiple simulations are run, and if I launch the Results Browser in the Virtuoso ADE, I can see all the results from each run and plot data and everything looks good.

2)   (NOT WORKING) I am having trouble getting Ocean to select among the various transient runs.  If I use the results() command, I get a list of things that include items like the following: "tran1-tran" "tran3-tran" "tran4-tran" (for some reason, "tran2-tran" is always missing from this list).  And if I go to the Ocean command line, I can see that each of these brings up a valid pointer when used with selectResults.  E.g.  


ocean> selectResults("tran1-tran")
stdobj@xa2f81b0
ocean> selectResults("tran2-tran")
stdobj@xa2f81bc
etc.

BUT, if I follow that with, say plot(VT("/dac_in")), then it ALWAYS plots the results of tran2.  This is the heart of my problem.  No matter which results I try to select, I only get tran2.  Consequently, I cannot plot/print anything from any of the other simulations.

Is there something I don't understand about how selectResults works?  I feel like this is a bug, but I am too new to be sure.

I would appreciate help of any kind...either workarounds for the selectResults problem or advice on completely different ways to run this batch of simulations.

thanks!

Thank you for the constructive criticism.  

Your suggestion to use plot(getData("/dac_in")) instead of plot(VT("/dac_in")) works.  So my entire script is now working.  

I would still welcome any broader suggestions on a better way to run multiple transient simulations (each using a different pwl file) and get the results into matlab.  The solution I currently have (involving alter statements) partitions the programming awkwardly between Spectre and Ocean, and I'm just not crazy about it.