I am running an HSPICE simulation and I am trying to plot the current waveform going into some instance pins. When I do that from within the Analog Design Environment using "Outputs->To be plotted->Select on Schematic", I can see the node such as INST1/A in the list of outputs to be plotted, however for some reason that netlister concatenates the name and the pin into a single word which produces an error in HSPICE as this node doesn't exist. When I try to do the same thing in Ocean, I realize that the previous behaviour happens if I precede the name with a slash, such as /INST1/A however when I remove the slash, the item is copied as it is to the HSPICE netlist. So I ended up having this line in my ocean script: save( 'i "/V0/PLUS" "/V1/PLUS" "XINST1.A") which produces what seems correct by adding a line to the .PROBE TRAN line of the HSPICE netlist as: ..PROBE TRAN + I(v0) + I(v1) + I(XINST1.A) this seems to save the current in HSPICE but I can't figure a way to get the results from within Ocean after the simulation is done. If I use "outputs()" I can't see this current. Although I can see and plot all internal nodes in XINST1 except the actual pins. The same behavior happens if I use : save( 'alli) which is supposed to save all currents but it doesn't seem to save any currents when I see the results from "outputs()" The first behavior in ADE seems like a bug to me because it's not doing what it is supposed to do. If you select a current to plot on a schematic, it should plot it. However the second behaviors in Ocean is it a bug too in HSPICE support? or am I doing something wrong regarding saving and plotting?. Any help appreciated. Thanks
