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Course Description
For classroom delivery, this course is taught as a half-day session (4 hours).
This course is part of the Spectre Simulator Fundamentals series. In this course, you use the Spectre® Circuit Simulator Measurement Description Language (MDL), a productivity-enhancing tool for simulation and data analysis. Using alias measurement, a Measurement Description Language (MDL) procedure, you can run an analysis and extract information about the performance of the circuit.
You examine how MDL acts as a controller interacting with a variety of inputs, outputs, and tools. You also learn to create MDL measurements and re-use them, and finally run Spectre MDL in standalone and batch modes and observe the measured values in the *.measure output file.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Use the Spectre Ciruit Simulator Measurement Description Language (MDL) to create a measurement alias
- Interact with a variety of inputs, outputs, and tools using MDL
- Identify the contents of a Spectre MDL file
- Define and use a measurement alias for common measurements in Spectre
- Construct Spectre MDL expressions using its data types, operators and built-in functions
- Evaluate MDL expressions using looping and control statements
- Set up and run Spectre MDL in standalone and batch modes
- Use the wildcard (\*) in the MDL control file for mapping all signals
- Postprocess MDL measurements
Software Used in This Course
- Spectre Classic Simulator
- Spectre Multi-Mode Simulation
- Cadence® Design Framework II
- Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis XL
Software Release(s)
SPECTRE18.1(ISR2) and IC6.1.8(Base)
Modules in this Course
- Measurement Description Language
- Appendix: Spectre Command-Line Options
Audience
- Analog Designers
- Chip Designers
- RF Designers
- IC Designers
- Design Engineers
- Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Designers
Prerequisites
You must have:
- A basic knowledge of analog circuit design
- The ability to read and understand analog circuit netlists
- An understanding of DC, Transient and AC analyses and their measurements
Or you must have completed the following course:
It is also recommended to take the Spectre Simulator Fundamentals S2: Large-Signal Analyses course covering DC and transient analysis or have an understanding of DC, Transient and AC analyses as this course involves measurements after performing these analyses.
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