Hi,
When I am doing pnosie analysis in cadence spectre (IC 416) , the simulation prematuarly teminated & error flushing like below
Provided I have fixed tstb =200ns for beat frequency = 10MHz
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pss has reached the maximum iterations (20).
Error found by spectre during periodic steady state analysis `pss'.
pss analysis did not converge. The last unconverged solution is saved.
The following set of suggestions may help you avoid these convergence difficulties.
1. Carefully evaluate and resolve any notice, warning or error messages.
2. Providing a larger value for tstab generally improves convergence. While not always necessary, one occasionally needs set tstab to a value equal or greater than the time needed for the circuit to approximately reach steady state.
3. While trapezoidal rule ringing is annoying in transient analysis, in PSS analysis it can cause the shooting iteration to stall before convergence is achieved. This problem can be remedied by changing the method from traponly to either trap, gear2, or gear2only.
4. Increase the maximum iterations for shooting methods using the maxperiods parameter. Sometimes the analysis may need more than the default number of iterations to converge. However, there are situations that prevent convergence regardless of how many iterations are taken. In this case, increasing the iteration limit simply results in the simulator taking longer to fail.
5. If the shooting iteration approaches convergence and then stalls, it may be because the tolerance on the shooting method is too tight. In this case, try loosening steadyratio, which controls how close to steady-state the result must be before it is declared to be converged.
6. Finally, tightening the normal simulation tolerances (maxstep, reltol, lteratio, errpreset) can help resolve convergence problems in PSS. Avoid using errpreset=liberal.
Analysis `pss' terminated prematurely due to error.
Error found by spectre.
PSS analysis must be executed before pnoise. Analysis skipped.
Analysis `pnoise' terminated prematurely due to error.
modelParameter: writing model parameter values to rawfile.
element: writing instance parameter values to rawfile.
outputParameter: writing output parameter values to rawfile.
designParamVals: writing netlist parameters to rawfile.
primitives: writing primitives to rawfile.
subckts: writing subcircuits to rawfile.
Can help someone regarding this issues.