How to disable pop up window in Hspice

[Doomy82]

Hello,
I run Hspice from matlab. I have a program for optimization where I need to run Hspice many times consecutively. After every simulation the pop up window appears and after while disappears. This is very disturbing. Do you know how to disable this window?

Josef

 

[Doomy82]

Pleeease

Can you please help me?

Josef

 

[mazdak]

can you tell me how do you run Hspice in MATLAB? in Windows i mean

 

[Doomy82]

can you tell me how do you run Hspice in MATLAB? in Windows i mean

In matlab you can run a executable file (.exe, .com,...) using command dos.
For executing hspice, I use this line:

[s,w]=dos(['c:\synopsys\Hspice_A-2008.03\BIN\hspicerf.exe r:\netlist.sp r:\output_file']);

[s,w] are some flags which are not important,
netlist.sp - input netlist
output_file - simulation informations

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Common People Someone Reply to us. I need help with the same.

Any tutorials, Documents, Reference Materials, Web links will do.

Do you have the same problem? Do you also use hspice for optimisation purposes (many runs) using matlab?

 

[mazdak]

thanks man
that really helped me

 

[mazdak]

Hi,
I found 2 ways for the popup window problem
1. make a shortcut of Hspice.exe and then right click>properties>shortcut tab>run as minimized, then from matlab reference to this shortcut from now on
2. (the way I use myself) before the name of the program (here it is Hspice.exe) type /min
I'm using eval command in Matlab to run windows commands instead of dos command, first I make a string like "& /min hspice -i input.sp& exit&" and then I put this string as input to eval(str)

hope this help

 

[Doomy82]

Thank you very much man, that's really helpful )

 

[lucas_severo]

Hello,
I didn't understand how to disable the simulation window.
Can you help me?
For example, if I am running in HSPUI (Hspice GUI) it have a option where i can disable the windows poupup, but in matlab execution how can I change this setting?
I use the functions below:
Simulator_path='C:\synopsys\Hspice_B-2008.09-SP1\BIN\hspice /m';

Dir=['simulation_files\folded_cascode.sp'];
Diroout=['simulation_files\folded_cascode.lis'];
[zz,zzz]=system([Simulator_path ' -i ' Dir ' -o ' Dirout]);

Thanks .