awaves is a graphical interface which allows you to view voltage/current plots for nodes inside of your hspice simulation. Before running awaves, you must have run hspice on your circuit netlist. Also, the hspice file must have specified the POST option in the .OPTION statement.

To start awaves, type the following command:

        %awaves

Other options are: %awaves xxx.sp or %awaves xxx.tr0

Once the main window has appeared, you can open a design by using the menu choice:

        Design/Open

This will present a list of hspice files in your current directory. Click on the file you want to open.

You will then see the Results Browser. To plot a waveform, click one of the results choices in the first menu pane. These will look like:

        DC:****
        AC:****

This will bring up some entries in the types and curves panes. To show the waveforms, double-click the node names on the curves pane.

To print the curve to a printer or file, click on the printer icon in the main awaves display window.

To exit out of awaves, use the menu choice:

        Design/Exit