anyone very familiar with hspice? help on DC measure please!

.meas dc


Dear all,
I encounter a problem in sim with hspice 2004.09. I designed a hysteresis comparator, and, I wanna measure its positive and negtive trig point and thus the width of the hysteresis window in DC sweep. This would be a huge work when I use monte carlo simulation, and what is more, I 'd like get more accurate result. So, how to do it by using .meas?

I've read all the related doc like command_ref. But all examples are give in .meas tran or .meas ac. I think the most "like" command is "find when". So, I use the following command:
.measure DC TH+ find X when v(out)=2.5 fall=1

Here, X is the value of the input signal. But, all I got in *.ms was


$DATA1 SOURCE='HSPICE' VERSION='W-2004.09 '
.TITLE 'comparator_hysteresis************************************'
th+ temper alter#
failed 25.0000 1.0000


So, anyone have the same experience before? Please, give me some suggestion on this command.

hspice measure dc

u got and eror while compling it or the resutlt is not right?

X is a function fall calling subckt, maybe it doesnt understand it..

meas dc

Is X a parameter?
if so, change the X in your measure statement into V(node)

x means hspice

x means subket
voltage express must use v in the beginnig of expression

what x means in hspice

.DC V4 0.4 0.8 0.001
.MEAS DC VLH TRIG V(BGP_RDY) AT=0.4 RISE=1 TARG V(BGP_RDY) VAL='0.1*VS' RISE=1
.DC V4 0.8 0.4 -0.001
.MEAS DC VHL TRIG V(BGP_RDY) AT=0.8 FALL=1 TARG V(BGP_RDY) VAL='0.9*VS' FALL=1
.MEAS DC VHYS PARAM='VLH+0.4-(0.8+VHL)'

This is my file for measure hysteresis voltage.Maybe, it can be referenced for you.

Added after 5 minutes:

muldersun said:

.DC V4 0.4 0.8 0.001
.MEAS DC VLH TRIG V(BGP_RDY) AT=0.4 RISE=1 TARG V(BGP_RDY) VAL='0.1*VS' RISE=1
.DC V4 0.8 0.4 -0.001
.MEAS DC VHL TRIG V(BGP_RDY) AT=0.8 FALL=1 TARG V(BGP_RDY) VAL='0.9*VS' FALL=1
.MEAS DC VHYS PARAM='VLH+0.4-(0.8+VHL)'

This is my file for measure hysteresis voltage.Maybe, it can be referenced for you.

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If you work in windows, you can find VHYS in .lis file, all corner results are in this file.
If you work in linux/unix , you need to generate .lis by yourself.