Spectre bug with gmin?

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by Zhiheng Cao, Dec 15, 2005.

  1. Zhiheng Cao

    Zhiheng Cao Guest

    I am running spectre ver. 5.0.33.120403 and I am not sure
    if this is a known bug:

    If I set the gmin option all the way down from 1,1e-1,1e-2,... to 1e-9
    the simulator output has correct lines like
    "Gmin=1nS is too large to noticeably affect result... "
    (when gmin is set to 1e-9)

    But as soon as I set gmin to 1e-10, then
    the simulator says
    "Gmin=1S is too large to noticeably affect result... 1 Ohm resistance
    is put across every nonlinear elements"
    where it should be 100pS.
    If gmin is set 1e-12 or "1pS", the output becomes "Gmin=10mS... 100Ohm".
    And, the simulation results are totally wrong.

    Does anybody have had similar problem?
     
    Zhiheng Cao, Dec 15, 2005
    #1
  2. I vaguely recall seeing something like this many years ago when somebody
    was setting something using a very small engineering unit (something like
    "1.0y"), which DFII understood, but not spectre - but nothing like this.

    Are you using the spectre or spectreS interface?

    Andrew.
     
    Andrew Beckett, Jan 12, 2006
    #2
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