How To Use HSpice

1
How To Use HSpice

• Dr. Mark C. Johnson
• Manager, Digital Design Systems Labs
  mcjohnso_at_purdue.edu
• Office EE 268
• Office Phone [phone]

2
Two things were required to set it up

• Default command shell set to tcsh (already was
  because I asked esite to make all course project
  accounts use tcsh)
• Add a .cshrc file to each home dir containing the
  following line, followed by a blank line
• source /usr/site/ece/bin/edacfg hsp cscope

3
To use the software

• On the Sun Rays in MSEE189, type the following to
  run hspice on a netlist called file.sp and to run
  a waveform viewer called cosmoscope.
• Note since awaves is not available in linux, I
  normally recommend using cosmoscope which works
  in Solaris and Linux. We do not maintain a
  microsoft windows installation of hspice.
• grid hspice file.sp
• grid cscope
• hspice and cscope will not run directly on the
  Sun Rays or server ecegrid to which they are
  connected. The "grid" command tells server
  ecegrid to run the program on a linux cluster
  connected to ecegrid.

4

• Note cscope will accept any of a variety of
  waveform data formats. However, you may need to
• On linux (or other Solaris) workstations, just
  type "hspice" and "cscope" respectively.

5

• For remote access from a windows machine (either
  an ECN machine or one belonging to the students),
  please see
• http//cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/mcjohnso/cae_tools/C
  ygwin.html

6

• To access documentation from an account that is
  setup for hspice and cscope
• for hspice
• cd HSPDOCS
• then use either acroread, xpdf, gpdf to open the
  appropriate pdf from that directory. See the
  README file for descriptions
• for cscope
• type cssold

7

• Note for some strange reason xpdf on linux
  systems handles links to other documents in a
  strange way. After I click a link to a document
  of interest, I have to page backwards to see the
  document that I selected.
• Mark