Sunday, October 18, 2009

Hspice Options (Please Synopsys!)

The "HSPICE (R) Simulation and Analysis User Guide" doesn't have the full list of options. WTH!!

Thankfully, I'm not the first person to notice this. We have a nicely organized list here :

Lehigh University - the light in Pennsylvania's darkness.

Believe it or not, they even fix some of Synopsys's errors - for Eg, the manual, on pg 61 says ".OPTION LENNAM defines the length of names in printouts (default=16).

Liars! Lehigh tells you 8 and they're right.

1 comment:

edw said...

I'm afraid the basis of your complaint relies on a quite outdated manual. The HSPICE command options are described in Chapter 3 of the HSPICE Reference Manual: Commands and Control Options where they have resided for at least five years. If they so wish, I can help Lehigh University update its obsolete list by forwarding a pdf of the current command option listings.
With regard to .OPTION LENNAM, the default was changed from 8 to 16 several releases ago.