ADS Interfaces

IC-CAP provides two template names to interface to the ADS simulator's Circuit and Test Circuit pages—hpeesofsim uses native ADS simulator syntax and spmodeads uses spectre simulator syntax. Both interfaces use native ADS simulator syntax to specify the sweep and output requests.

To specify the hpeesofsim or spmodeads interface, usersimulators should have a line similar to the following:

 hpeesofsim hpeesofsim $ADS_DIR/bin/iccapinterface "" CAN_PIPE

or

 spmodeads spmodeads $ADS_DIR/bin/iccapinterface "" CAN_PIPE

The first field can be any name you choose, it will show up in your simulator list, and it can be used with the SIMULATOR variable.

Both the hpeesofsim and spmodeads lines shown above are in the usersimulators file by default.

When using the spmodeads interface, refer to Circuit Model Descriptions in Chapter 4, "SPECTRE Simulator" for spectre syntax for the Circuit and Test Circuit pages.