We found that serious simulation result analysis and backprocessing requires a powerful, userfriendly, function rich and powerful scripting enviroment. That is Matlab period.
We actual run many test bench analysis scripts trough Matlab. But there is no frontend for Matlab which allows to make a complete script simulator control. That mean that all control structures like netlist composition, corner, variation and mismatch parameter control, simulator start and load distribution should be made by Matlab.
I found only a tool here
http://www.sawtootheda.com/simcontrol.htmlBut they do not show how the sim result are processed.
The ADE XL could import Matlab script results but only as a function result similar to the calculator expression. But we need that Matlab is the control master because depending on the sim results of a previous sim run further changes in the sim parameter setup are made by the Matlab script.
SpectreMDL is restricted to the function evaluation and Ocean is far away from the quite user experience with Matlab.
Seems to me that Mathworks should better made a SimControl like above which work with all sim vendors including opensource spice which could run on clouds or farms.