I have many measurements (100's) of passive devices that I need to fit to ADS models for verification. The measurements are from a network analyzer and are in the form of touchstone (s2p). Now, I know I can do this one by one using the data file tool (or what used to be called the instrument manager). Is there a way to automate this, maybe a way to convert these with a command line function?
Dave
Dave
Q: What do you intend to do with the data? Â Do you want to combine them all into one file and use in a single ADS simulation? Â Or do you want to use them in a variety of different ADS simulations?
If you want to just automate converting the files from S2P file into a corresponding ADS data set for all the files, take a look at this forum thread which gives some good ideas for 2 different available approaches:
https://edasupportweb.soco.agilent.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=ads_de&action=display&num=1157440834
Depending upon what you want to do, what version of ADS that you have, and on what OS platform you are using--here is a quick summary of this forum link above:
Approach #2: In addition to the Data File Tool, ADS 2006A will include two tools that will support bi-directional conversion of ADS Dataset files, Touchstone, Citifile and generic MDIF files. These tools are called ds_export & ds_import and will run from the command line, enabling batch-file operation and automation of the data conversion process.
Also, that you have a lot of S2P files, here is a ADS AEL script that you might be interested in.... that is to automate putting all the S2P files into one file (S2PMDIF):
https://edasupportweb.soco.agilent.com/portal/page?_pageid=36,39980&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=275196&search=convert%20dataset%20ASCII&ref=search