Capture CIS and PSpice simulation problem (SPD)

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by Talez, Oct 12, 2005.

  1. Talez

    Talez Guest

    Currently, I'm doing a simulation of circuit--Actually, it is not a
    circuit, a Power LED modelling--that has almost 38,000 of nodes. As you
    can imagine, the circuit has intense and extremely complicated.

    I'm using Capture CIS to edit and sketch schemetic of circuit, but this
    is one problem. Although my PC is not ancient(?) silicon dough, (P4
    2.8C, 1.5G DDR, ATI X700) the Capture CIS program runs very
    slow--almost stuck--when opening, editing the Massive Diode modelling
    circuit. Of corse, working with simple(about 100 nodes?) circuitry does
    not cause speed down or lagging. It should be ridiculous to complain
    about this problem with tens of thousand noded circuit, but it have
    strange situation. If we open the same Massive circuit in OrCad 9.X
    version's Capture Package, it runs as fast as usual. However, when
    opened with Capture integrated with OrCad 10.X, Whoops, even making
    only one scratch on that circuit takes almost 5 minutes.

    Secondly, when performing simulation the Massive LED modelling circuit
    with PSpice A/D, it takes more than 1 hour to finish simulation run.
    The sweep step was 26. But, even the sweep reduced to only one sweep,
    it takes almost 30~40 minutes. Strangly, with HT(P4 2.8C has Hyper
    Threading), the simulation process does not eat up more than 50% of CPU
    usage. I wish to reduce simulation time, even the Simulation process
    takes whole CPU usage. Or, if the PSpice runs single threaded in
    default, I want to change its setting to use multi-threaded simulation
    environment.

    Can you provide any advise with my problems?
     
    Talez, Oct 12, 2005
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