Product Documentation
Virtuoso ADE Environment Variables Reference
Product Version IC23.1, September 2023


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Environment Variables

Licensing Requirements

adexl.setupdb

loadSetupToActiveAlsoViewsResults
saveDir
percentageForNearSpec
useNMPForMapping

adexl.test

autoCopyCellviewVars
autoPromoteVarsToGlobal
checkForUnsavedViewsUponRun
checkForNewCellviewVarsUponRun
debugDataDir
initiallyAddNameUniqifier

adexl.testEditor

adexlTestEditorSetupValidateMsg
showAllMenus

adexl.simulation

autoDetectNetlistProcs
checkInstanceBindings
createCompositeSimLogFileWhenSimCountFewerThan
createRunLogForSweepsCorners
createRunLogWhenSimsFewerThan
diskLowWarningInterval
haltCurrentRunAfterPreRunTrigger
ignoreDesignChangesDuringRun
ignoredLibsForDUT
includeStatementForNetlistInSimInputFile
matlabResultTimeout
matlabStartTimeout
moveConfigsToNetlistDir
overrideNetlistProcDetection
overwriteHistory
overwriteHistoryName
retainNetlistsOverwriteHistory
saveBestNDesignPoints
saveBestPointsStrategy
saveLastNHistoryEntries
saveNetlistData
saveRawData
saveRawDataMode
setCurrentRunPostSimulation
showErrorForNonExistingVariables
showWarningForReferenceNetlist
singleNetlistForAllPoints
sortVariableValues
warnWhenSimsExceed

adexl.distribute

continueICRPRunOnAbruptGUIExit
createUniqueLogsDirForICRPLogs
defaultRunInParallel
defaultPerRunNumJobs
enableICRPReconnect
estimateMemoryUnitForFarm
generateJobFileOnlyOnError
inferCommandICRPStatusFromProxy
isLSFMemSwapHostLimit
jobFileHeader
jobFileDir
useAllLingeringJobs
maxJobFailPerPolicy
maxJobFailPerPolicyInBatch
maxIPCJobsLimit
maxJobsIsHardLimit
maxNFSSyncWait
numRetriesOnError
runTimeoutScaleFactor
runTimeoutScalingStartsAfterSimCount
useAsRunTimeout
useSameProcess

adexl.monte

additionalNetlistOptions
applySaveOptionsToNetlist
createStatisticalCornerType
enableMonteCarloOverStatisticalCorners
incrementalUpdate
iterationUpdates
minGroupSizeSplitAcrossIdleJobs
numberOfPointsToView
samplingMethod
saveProcessOptionDefaultValue
saveSimulationData
saveMismatchOptionDefaultValue
warnWhenSimsExceed

adexl.historyNamePrefix

showNameHistoryForm
initiallyAddHistoryNameUniquifier
singleRunSweepsAndCorners
monteCarloSampling
WorstCaseCorners
globalOptimization
localOptimization
improveYield
highYieldEstimation
sensitivityAnalysis
feasibilityAnalysis
manualTuning
sizeOverCorners

adexl.icrpStartup

binaryName
defaultJobPolicy
enableOutdir
refreshCDF
showJobStdout
showJobStderr
showOutputLogOnError

adexl.results

checksAssertsFiltersPath
checksAssertsViewTool
defaultBackAnnotationOption
defaultResultsViewForMonteCarlo
defaultResultsViewForSweepsCorners
evalOutputsOnSimFailure
exportPreserveScalingFactors
retainReferenceSimResults
saveDir
saveLocalPsfDir
saveResDir
saveResultsFromHistoryDir
useLocalPsfDir

adexl.gui

autoCornerUpdate
continueJobsOnExitQuery
copyMeasurementScripts
copyPreRunScripts
confirmReEvaluationWhen
continueJobsOnExitQuery
defaultCorners
defaultCornerExportFileFormat
defaultCornerImportFileFormat
defaultParametersAssistantFilter
defaultParametersViewBy
descendIntoSubcktForShowingInstOrNet
detailViewShowDefault
detailtransposeViewShowDefault
disableConstraintsRead
disableNominalSimulation
disableRunInReadOnly
disableSimulationsDefault
enableAutoRefreshSetupSummary
enableAutoRefreshPointsTable
enableMonteCarloForRunPreview
forceShowAutomaticExpressions
formatSpecValues
filterCDFParamsWithZeroOrNegativeOneDefValue
headerAlignmentSide
headerTruncationDirection
headerTruncationWidth
LimitModelSections
maxNotesLength
maxNotesRowsDisplay
mismatchPairs
modelSectionFilterFunction
numberOfBestPointsToView
omitUndefinedVarsAndParamsInCornersCSV
openDesignAccessMode
openDesignInNewTab
openSchInWin
openTerminalCommand
optimizationViewShowDefault
outputTabsShowDefault
pcfPrependBasePath
reEvalOnlyMostRecentHistory
reEvaluationAgeHoursThreshold
reEvaluationMode
reEvaluationRemovingOutputsThreshold
reEvaluationWhenActiveAndHistoryTestsDiffer
saveStateQuery
sendOutputsToEEFilter
setHistoryPrefixToSetupStateNameOnLoad
setupFormDefaultEnabled
setupFormDefaultLoadOperation
significantDigits
showSimLogForOnePointSim
specComparisonMode
statusViewShowDefault
summaryViewShowDefault
testsShownInOutputsSetup
toolbarButtonStyle
yieldViewShowDefault
zoomToProbedInstOrNet

adexl.cpupdtr

copyResultsData

adexl.datasheet

author
CSSFile
customFiles
mainDocXSLFile
testDocXSLFile
waveformFileExtension
whatToSaveDefault

ams.envOpts

exportOceanScriptWithNetlistDirSupport

asimenv

allowSignalsExpressionInSameSubwindow

asimenv.startup

copyDesignVarsFromCellview

adexl.oceanxl

includeSimLogInJobLog

adexl.plotting

histogramBins
histogramType
histogramQQPlot
maxHistogramBins
modelFilesAre
plotScalarExpressions
plotScalarsAsLine
plotSignals
plotType
plotWaveExpressions
resultsCacheSize
showHistogramDensity
showHistogramDeviation
showHistogramPoints
showHistogramPercentMarkers

asimenv.plotting

specMarkers
useQPDataToCreateDataSheet

ADE Simulation Environment

adelExitQuery
adePanicStatePath
allowAdePanicStateSaving
allowInvalidObjectSelection
appendLibNameToProjectDir
artistPlottingMode
waveformReaderThreadCount
autoPlot
awvResizeWindow
browserCenterMode
createCDFdata
createCDFtermOrder
createComponentName
createNamePrefix
createNetlistProc
createOceanScriptBeforeSimulation
defaultHierSave
defaultTools
designName
designVarSetting
digitalHost
digitalHostMode
digits
directPlotPlottingMode
displayPcellNameCustomFormat
displayPointNetlistTimeStamp
doNotOverwriteVarValuesWhileCopyingFromCV
drlBufferMemory
findVariablesSkip
host
hostMode
icons
ignoreDesignCheckout
ignoreSchModified
includeAsBundle
innerSweepSwappableSizeLimit
immediatePlot
immediatePrint
useHierarchicalSelection
inductorDevicesNames
keepShellVarsInModelLibPath
netlistAccess
includeSimLogInOCEAN
numberOfSavedRuns
obsoleteWarnings
oceanScriptFile
outputsImportExportVersion
paraplotUpdateSimulatorLog
pcellNameGenerationStyle
pcellNameCustomFormat
postSaveOceanScript
preferTermOrderOverPinOrder
preSaveOceanScript
printCommentChar
printInlines
printNotation
projectDir
remoteDir
resizeMode
retainDesignVarNotation
retainStateSettings
saveAsCellview
saveDefaultsToOCEAN
saveDir
saveStateWhenLibMarkedForDeletion
saveQuery
scalarOutputs
sevResolveSymLinks
showConvertNotifyDialog
showWhatsNew
simulationDate
simulator
skipModelSectionsRetrieval
smartViewDSPFDirectory
stateName
stateOverWriteSkipList
strictCDFparseAsNumber
temperature
toolList
tryNFSSync
tryNFSSyncLocal
updateCDFtermOrder
updateCDFtermOrder
useDisplayDrf
useNamePrefix
variables
vaTemplateScript
x
y

ADE XL

defaultLibName
showMenu
showOpenViewDialog
viewNamePrefix

AMS

AMS_IGNORE_IGNORE
disallowRedefinition
dresolution
enablePkgImport
fglobalSignals
hnlVerilogIgnoreTermNameList
ignorePrintNettype
lTnetlistMaxWarn
netlistBlackboxWithExtHdl
netlistNoWarn
print_control_vars
shortInstanceList
simOutputFormat
tran_severity
upgradeMsgSevError
upgradeMsgSevWarn
useEffectiveCDF

ams.envOpts

Calculator

dstack
eval
mode
uimode

Distributed Processing

autoJobSubmit
block
copyMode
copyModeDir
copyNetlist
daysBeforeExpire
drmsCommandList
emailNotify
expDay
expTime
externalServer
hostName
jobArgsInOceanScript
loginShell
logsInEmail
mailAllLogs
mailTo
numOfTasks
puttogetherqueue
queueName
setupFunction
showMessages
startDay
startTime
stateFile
timeLimit

Environment Variables for Advanced Run Modes

ignoreFailedPointsInWCCRun
digitsToShowForYieldInPercentage
sortVariablesOpt
stopManualTuningOnSessionExit
useDoubleSidedSigma
toleranceComparionRatiorForRSM
useOptInWCD
yieldProbability
WCCEnableNewlyCreatedCorners

HspiceD

checkOutLicenseDuringNetlistAndRun
hspiceMaxLineLength
hspiceSoftLineLength
mapGndNetToZero
netlistModelFileFirst
setTopLevelAsSubckt
userCmdLineOption

Analysis

relxpert_gradual_aging
spectre_analysis_

Spectre

AC Match Analysis Environment Variables
dec
lin
log
mth
oprobe
annotate
force
groupby
oppoint
prevoppoint
readns
restart
save
skipdc
useprevic
where
additionalParams
incrType
outType
rangeType
span
center
start
stop
step
useDiscrete
values
P
n
stepTypeLin
stepTypeLog
analysisOrder
apsplus
assert_severity_default
autoDisplay
autoDisplayBBox
checkpoint
controlMode
currents
dc_severity
dcOp_severity
definitionFiles
displayToolTip
dochecklimit
dspfFile
emLayerMap
emirEnable
emirLCVDisable
emirSumList
emTechFile
enableArclength
fastViewOption
finalTimeOp
firstRun
ignorePortOrderMismatch
infoOptions
liclog
licQueueSleep
licQueueTimeOut
licQueueToken
includePath
modelFiles
modelParamInfo
nestlvl
netlistBBox
nport_default_interp
nportirfiledir
outputParamInfo
osc_accuracy
osc_version
paramRangeCheckFile
preserveSubcktTermNamesByOrder
printComments
pwr
recover
resetSpectreApsSharedOptions
save
saveahdlvars
setEngNotation
simExecName
simOutputFormat
stimulusFile
stopViewList
subcktprobelvl
switchViewList
tran_severity
uniMode
useprobes

OSS

Generating Customized Cellnames
hnlCustomizedModulePrefix

Ultrasim

fastViewOptionl
useOtherOutputFormat
wf_format

B

Environment Variables for Spectre Simulator Options Form

spectre.opts

Simulator Options - Main

generalnoiseinst
generalnoiseinstonoff
highvoltage
iabstol
multithread
noiseOffType
noiseOnType
nthreads
reltol
residualtol
temp
tempeffects
tnom
vabstol

Simulator Options - Algorithm

convdbg
dc_pivot_check
dptran_gmethod
gmethod
gmin
gmin_check
gmindc
homotopy
icpriority
limit
nonconv_topnum
pivabs
pivotdc
pivrel
preorder
rabsclamp
rabsshort
rebuild_matrix
rforce
rthresh
try_fast_op

Simulator Options - Component

approx
auto_minductor
vth_vdsmin
ivthl
ivthn
ivthp
ivthw
macromodels
maxrsd
nport_default_passivity
nportcompress
nportcompressfiledir
nportirfiledir
nportirreuse
nportunusedportgmin
nportunusedportrmin
minr
scale
scalefactor
scalem
tmevthmod
vthmod

Simulator Options - Check

checklimitdest
checklimitfile
checklimitskipfile
checklimitskipsubs
diagnose
iccheck
ignshorts
redefinedparams
opptcheck
topcheck

Simulator Options - Annotation

audit
cols
colslog
debug
digits
error
info
inventory
maxnotes
maxnotestologfile
maxwarns
maxwarnstologfile
notation
note
narrate
printstep
simstat
title
warn

Simulator Options - Miscellaneous

additionalArgs
ahdllint
ahdllint_maxwarn
ahdllint_on
flow
quantities
sensbinparam
sensfile
sensfileonly
sensformat
senstype
value1

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