Re: s2ibis2 error messages

> And finally, has anyone ever received this error message before?
>
> "...
> s2ibis2.sun4: Analyzing component S/UNI PLUS PM5347 .
> s2ibis2.sun4: Starting HSpice job with input putoutpi.spi.
> s2ibis2.sun4: Data begin marker transfer not found in output file
> putoutpi.out.
> s2ibis2.sun4: Curve pullup not generated.
> s2ibis2.sun4: Starting HSpice job with input dutoutpi.spi.
> s2ibis2.sun4: Data begin marker transfer not found in output file
> dutoutpi.out.
> s2ibis2.sun4: Curve pullup (output disabled) not generated.
> =2E.."

Roland:

S2ibis2 looks for certain "marker" words or symbols that denote the
start of the data in the output file. In this case, since you're using
HSPICE, s2ibis2 looks for the word "transfer" in the output file, and
marks where it finds it as the start of data. (It's not actually the
exact beginning of the data, but it allows s2ibis2 to skip over the
huge "prelude" portion of the output file.) Basically, the error
message just means that s2ibis2 couldn't find the marker it was
looking for.

You can find all of the markers it uses in the file s2istrng.h. The
variable names are VIDataBeginMarker, tranDataBeginMarker, and
dataEndMarker. Each variable has five possible values, corresponding
to the various flavors of SPICE simulator (HSPICE, PSpice, SPICE2,
Spice3 and Spectre, in that order).

Hope this helps.

Regards,

-- 
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