Thanks for those who replied to my enquiry re "Sweeping Temp within MonteCarlo in HSPICE".
The consensus is that temperature cannot be treated as a normal parameter in Spice thus
MonteCarlo (or other similar analysis) cannot sweep the temp in a user defined distribution
fashion. I think this is a limitation in Hspice that AVANT! should look into in their next
release.
Regards,
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> I went through something similar a few years ago, not Monte Carlo
> analysis, but trying to set the simulation temperature using a
> parameter.
>
> You can't do it.
>
> HSPICE technical support (then Meta Software), in their usual wisdom,
> gave me the wrong answer to my question. But it comes down to the
> fact that TEMPER is an internal read-only parameter.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
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