Spectre question

[Jason D. Bakos]

Hi everyone!

Spectre seems to have a built-in setting that limits the maximum size of
a psfascii tran.tran file. When simulating and this size is reached,
Spectre either automatically shuts down or crashes. This size is around
2.5 GB.

Does anyone know if there is a way to increase or change this setting?
There doesn't seem to be a documented command-line switch for this, but
perhaps there is an undocumented one.

Thanks in advance!
-Jason D. Bakos

 

[Bernd Fischer]

This is a bug in Spectre, Spectre should split result files greater than
2G.
This bug should be fixed, but I assume you are using a 4.4.6 version of Cadence
DFII.

Bernd

Jason D. Bakos wrote:

Hi everyone!

Spectre seems to have a built-in setting that limits the maximum size of
a psfascii tran.tran file. When simulating and this size is reached,
Spectre either automatically shuts down or crashes. This size is around
2.5 GB.

Does anyone know if there is a way to increase or change this setting?
There doesn't seem to be a documented command-line switch for this, but
perhaps there is an undocumented one.

Thanks in advance!
-Jason D. Bakos

 

[Andrew Beckett]

It's not a bug. File splitting is only supported with binary PSF.

Andrew.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:22:42 -0500, "Jason D. Bakos"
<jbakos@cREMOVEs.pitMEt.edu> wrote:

Bernd,

Nope, I'm using Spectre from DFII 5.0.33. I wonder why the bug hasn't
been fixed...

Thanks,
-Jason

Bernd Fischer > wrote:
This is a bug in Spectre, Spectre should split result files greater than
2G.
This bug should be fixed, but I assume you are using a 4.4.6 version of
Cadence DFII.

Bernd

Jason D. Bakos wrote:

Hi everyone!

Spectre seems to have a built-in setting that limits the maximum size
of a psfascii tran.tran file. When simulating and this size is
reached, Spectre either automatically shuts down or crashes. This
size is around 2.5 GB.

Does anyone know if there is a way to increase or change this setting?
There doesn't seem to be a documented command-line switch for this,
but perhaps there is an undocumented one.

Thanks in advance!
-Jason D. Bakos