Configure ABS

The Configure ABS tab on the EM Options page of the Circuit Settings dialog box allows you to set up the Adaptive Band Synthesis (ABS) Caching Level.

The ABS Caching Level determines if and how much of the ABS caching data is stored in your project. The levels are detailed below.

None: Select this option if you do not wish to store any ABS cache data in your project. If this option is selected and you stop an ABS analysis before completion, the only data available is the data calculated for the discrete data points. When you resubmit the ABS job, the cache data will need to be recalculated. Thus, the analysis must start all over again.

Stop/Restart: Select this option to store the ABS cache data while an ABS analysis is running. This allows you to stop an ABS analysis and restart it at a later time without losing the data from the processing done before the stop. This option deletes the cache data when convergence is reached and the ABS analysis is completed. This is the default setting.

Multi-Sweep plus Stop/Restart: Selecting this cache level saves the ABS cache data for every analysis performed on the project. This saves you processing time on any subsequent ABS analyses but be aware that the cache data will be calculated for any analysis of the project including non-ABS types of analysis, increasing the project size. This option should be used when you think you might want to re-analyze the project, using different ABS ranges or settings.

It is important when using this option that all your analyses use the same subsectioning frequency. This ensures that any pre-existing ABS cache data can be used in the present analysis. The default setting used to determine the subsectioning frequency is to use the highest frequency from the present analysis job. If you perform multiple sweeps over different frequency bands then the cache data from one run will be invalid for the next, since the subsectioning frequency would be different. In order to avoid this you should use the controls for the subsectioning frequency found in the Advanced Subsectioning tab to ensure that the same frequency is used for all analyses.