Andrew Beckett wrote on Feb 20th, 2009, 11:28pm:spectreS is obsolete (end-of-lifed), so I'd avoid using it unless you really have to!
Thanks Andrew. We were using spectreS models for the past few years with the TSMC 0.18u kit for undergrad courses. I'm rewriting a lab manual and didn't want to switch it to spectre since the other lab manuals are written for spectreS. In light of spectreS being EOL, I'll pass this on to those concerned in our dept. and advise them to update their manuals to spectre.
Regarding save *:oppoint, it seems my spectre isn't liking that command. I get this error:
Error found by spectre during circuit read-in:
"/saveop.scs" 1: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
We're using the MMSIM stream.
vlsi:/opt/cmosp13> icfb -W
sub-version 5.10.41_USR5.90.69
vlsi:/opt/cmosp13> icfb -V
@(#)$CDS: icfb.exe version 5.1.0 06/20/2007 02:40 (cicsun11) $
vlsi:/opt/cmosp13> spectre -W
sub-version 6.1.1.424
vlsi:/opt/cmosp13> spectre -V
@(#)$CDS: spectre version 6.1.1 06/17/2007 07:20 (usim440-24) $