AMS Designer, with Spectre solver family (Spectre, Spectre APS, and Spectre XPS Mixed-Signal (MS) mode), supports the PSpice ® netlist format targeted to include PCB components modeled in the PSpice format into a Spectre integrated circuit simulation. This solution does not support PSpice-only designs. The top-level netlist and control statement need to be defined in Spectre or SPICE format. The recommended approach is to define a subcircuit in PSpice netlist format and instantiate the subcircuit in the Spectre netlist.
For the AMS Designer simulator to support PSpice netlists, use the +mts argument with the -spectre_args option of the xrun/xmsim command:
xrun -spectre_args +mts
It is mandatory to specify the +mts argument in AMS to support PSpice netlists.
After you set -spectre_args +mts , you can include a PSpice netlist in your test bench database, through a Spectre netlist by using the following statement.
pspice_include < file > (Spectre format)
.pspice_include < file > (SPICE format)
All content of the included file should be in PSpice format. If the file includes additional files, they also should be in PSpice format. Elements and device models used in the PSpice netlist are simulated using PSpice default values and equations.
The Spectre PSpice feature does not support digital PSpice elements and PSpice encryption. Spectre encryption is recommended, if encryption is required