hspice simulator from IC50

[SwordFish]

Hi,
I have a problem with IC5 under Linux.
I have tried to simulate with hspice and not with spectre.
But I found a problem: in whole cadence directory does not exist "hspice.exe"
I lost one night to find a solution and I found this: in /bin exist only the "hspice" file and not "hspice.exe" .
"hspice" is only an script who call the "hspice.exe".
and because the file "hspice.exe" is not there give a mesage like this "variable must begin with a letter"

Please tell me where can I found "hspice.exe" file. If someone have it please sent it.

Thanke you

 

[bastos4321]

You must install hspice soft. It does not came with IC50, it's from synopysy.
Bastos

 

[SwordFish]

do you mean that I only copy "hspice" from HSPICE to the IC directory and rename it "hspice.exe" ???!?!??!

seems to be too easy ....

 

[hqqh]

hi,

bastos4321 is right. you have to install HSP1CE (linux version) and set the all necessary environment variables. i think there are some posts here where this procedure is described.
general there are a direct simulation approach (if you use s/pect/re) and an socket simulation approach (for all other simulators). so you have to set up ic5 in that way, that it uses HSP1CE instead of s/pect/re. i didn't try this before, but i have read it in the document anasimhelp.pdf (ic5_install_dir/doc/anasimhelp/).


Greetings,
hqqh

 

[bastos4321]

That's the approach for the other type of simulators as eldo, hsim, etc. Install the simulator where you want, and then set the environment variables.

Bastos