Virtuoso AMS Environment User Guide

Netlisting

Viewing the AMS Netlister Log

If you want to examine the log produced by the AMS netlister, choose AMS – Logfile

Viewer – Netlister Log File from the Cadence hierarchy editor menu. The log contains information about the blocks that are translated. For example, the following log describes where two netlists are written.

@(#)$CDS: amsdirect version 4.4.6 06/21/2000 19:28 (cds11607) $ Copyright (c) 1999 Cadence Design Systems. All Rights Reserved.

Run date: Thu Jun 22 15:40:42 2000 Run time options used:

-mpshost cds11752 -mpssession icms8457 -pid 8628

Info: Processing ("amslib" "top" "schematic") ...

Info: Verilog-AMS netlist successfully written to /opt/mnt4/lorenp/alpha2/alpha/AMS_lib/amsLib/top/schematic/verilog.vams.

Info: Found 0 errors and 0 warnings.

Info: Processing ("amslib" "comparator" "schematic") ...

Info: Verilog-AMS netlist successfully written to /opt/mnt4/lorenp/alpha2/

Understanding the Output from the AMS Netlister

The output of a successful netlisting run is one or more files namedverilog.vams, each containing a legal Verilog-AMS module that corresponds to a CDBA cellview. The netlister places each output file in the cellview directory.

For example, consider the following schematic.