Plotting operating point values in DC sweep

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by Svenn Are Bjerkem, Nov 18, 2004.

  1. Hi,
    I run a DC-sweep on the common mode input voltage on an operational
    amplifier. This should cause some movement in the operating points of
    the input transistors. I try to plot the value of vdsat vs. swept
    vin_cm, but by using the OP("/N1" "vdsat") I only get one operating
    point, the value that is saved in the opInfo in psf directory. If I look
    in the dcSweep result, the only data saved for the N1 transistor is the
    current through drain.

    Any idea what I do wrong?

    Kind regards,
     
    Svenn Are Bjerkem, Nov 18, 2004
    #1
  2. Hi Svenn,

    The OP function gets DC operating point data, not the results from a DC
    sweep, which are separately stored.

    What you'd need to do is create an include file, with:

    save N1

    or

    save N1:vdsat

    in, and then use the results browser to access this information. Off the top
    of my head, you can probably get this via pv("/N1" "vdsat" ?result "dcSweep")
    or something like that... but it's probably easier to look in the results
    browser.

    The save statement tells it to save this info for all analyses run.

    Andrew.
     
    Andrew Beckett, Nov 22, 2004
    #2
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