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- From: yegna@cat.syr.edu (Yegnashankar Parasuram)
- Subject: Problem using spice2g6
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.014443.12543@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: CASE Center, Syracuse University
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:44:42 EST
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- Hi all,
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- I am right now trying to simulate my MAGIC layouts using
- Berkeley spice. I am using 2g6, since I don't have their
- recent version at my place.
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- The problem is that even for small cells with hardly 16
- transistors, I sometimes get the following error :
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- "
- 1*ERROR*: INTERNAL TIMESTEP TOO SMALL IN TRANSIENT ANALYSIS
- 0 TIME = 2.00961D-07; DELTA = 2.71138D-17; NUMNIT = 6710
- "
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- I get this error quite at random and am not able to make out what is
- it that I am doing wrong. I am doing a transient analysis and tried
- tweaking all the relevant options (ITL3, ITL4, ITL5) in the .OPTIONS
- card. But the error won't go !
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- I cannot also simulate rapidly changing signals (50ns clocks), since I
- get this error.
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- I would be grateful if anyone could tell me how I can get over this problem.
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- Also I am working with an old version of the spice users guide (10/1/83).
- Does anyone know where I can ftp a more detailed guide with a description
- of error messages that I get while simulating my circuit.
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- Thanks !
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- -Yegna.
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