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Spectre Circuit Simulator Reference
Product Version 23.1, September 2023

Static Capacitor Check (static_capacitor)

Description

Reports all capacitors within or outside the range of cmin and cmax. It can also generate a distribution list of all the capacitors in a circuit.

If the type parameter is set to range, all capacitors outside the range of cmin and cmax will be reported. If the type parameter is set to print, all capacitors between cmin and cmax will be reported. In the report, the capacitor names can be sorted by clicking on the Device name header in a Web browser.

If the type parameter is set to distr, a distribution list will be generated for all capacitors. There are a maximum of 9 bins:

-Inf - 0, 0 - 10a, 10a - 100a, 100a - 1f, 1f - 10f, 10f - 100f, 100f - 1p, 1p - 10p, and 10p - Inf

However, if two or more consecutive bins are empty, they will merge into one bin, reducing the number of bins. If type is set to distr, the parameters cmin, cmax, and error_limit are ignored.

The results are written to the static.xml file, which can be viewed in a Web browser. This check is supported only by XPS and APS.

Syntax

Name static_capacitor parameter=value ...

Parameters

Design check parameters

type

print

Checking types.Possible values are range, distr and print.

cmin

-1 F

Minimum capacitor value.

cmax

1 F

Maximum capacitor value.

Filtering parameters

error_limit

10000

Maximum number of errors reported. Default is 10000.

Related Topics

Static Capacitor Check


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