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anirban New Member Offline Posts: 4	spectre to spice conversion 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
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Geoffrey_Coram Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1998 Massachusetts, USA	Re: spectre to spice conversion Reply #1 - 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?
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anirban New Member Offline Posts: 4	Re: spectre to spice conversion Reply #2 - 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.
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Geoffrey_Coram Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1998 Massachusetts, USA	Re: spectre to spice conversion Reply #3 - 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.
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cmos.analogvala Community Member Offline Posts: 65 India	Re: spectre to spice conversion Reply #4 - Jun 13^th, 2009, 9:41am Try following command ... spp -convert < spicenetlist.sp > spectrenietlist.scs *** Don't omit < > -CA
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Re: spectre to spice conversion
Reply #5 - 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+S...
http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/Importing+a+Netlist+File
http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/Advanced+Methods+for+Importing+Fil...

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

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