How To Use HSpice Dr. Mark C. Johnson Manager, Digital Design & Systems Labs Office: EE 268 Office Phone:

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

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.

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.

For remote access from a windows machine (either an ECN machine or one belonging to the students), please see cae_tools/Cygwin.htmlhttp://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~mcjohnso/ cae_tools/Cygwin.html

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

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