Procedure To Run Nanosim

To run nanosim, you need to have Spice Netlist file and to create nanosim configuration file and vector file. The steps to run Nanosim are:

1. Make an epic directory under your layout design directory, copy the Eldo netlist file design.cir to the epic directory, and go to epic directory. If it is static circuit netlist, then rename it as static.cir and only then save it in the newly created epic directory. Similarly for dynamic and ptl circuits.
2. Generate a spice net list by using the following command:
   run_spice_converter
   This command create a spice netlist file, <design>.spi in current working directory.
3. Create design.vec file
4. Create cfg_pw file
5. Run Nanosim by using the following command\

      nanosim -n design.spi -nvec design.vec -c cfg_pw -o nanosim -p /class/EE571/epic_tech/tech*

6. After running nanosim, you can check your design or run-time errors in nanosim.log or nanosim.err. The nanosim.out file contains the results of power analysis of your design.