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how to reduce the waveform size (sst2) in spectre/aps
Apr 13th, 2010, 3:27pm
 
I am using cadence mmsim 7.2 to run my simulations. For the same netlist and save options (save all nodes), I tried ultrasim first and got the +400MB sst2 waveform file. Then I tried aps, the sst2 file became +70GB. Is there any way that I can reduce the file size? I know that in ultrasim you have the options  such as wf_filter, wf_tres to control the size of waveform file, is there a similar way that I can do it in aps/spectre ? Thanks a lot.
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Re: how to reduce the waveform size (sst2) in spectre/aps
Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2010, 4:31pm
 
Set the compression option on the transient analysis. See "spectre -h tran" and look for compression. Make sure you're using a recent version (e.g. MMSIM72) as there are some new extensions to compression options, and support in SST2.

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Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2010, 4:58pm
 
Thanks, Andrew. I found it in the manual.
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Reply #3 - Apr 16th, 2010, 5:39am
 
Hi zeronet,

Don't save all nodes. That's a bad practice if you simulate a large circuitry or run a very long time transient simulation.

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