import data from Cadence to Matlab with engineering notation format

Olivier — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:55:03 -0400

Hi,
I use Cadence to simulate microelectronic circuit, but I don't really appreciate the calculator provided in the software suite. I then Use Matlab to perform derivations on the data. Cadence use the Engineering Notation (EN) to store data (maybe there's a way to change that but so far I don't know it) and obviously Matlab does not know how to deal with that.

To make things clear and avoid misunderstanding, when I talk about Engineering Notation, I talk about:
G <=> 10e9, M <=> 10e6, k <=> 10e3...

So, as I don't know if Matlab knows EN, each time I use a text editor and change all these engineering suffixes. This is such a fun and so not boring task...
My question is then:
Is there a way to import data stored in Engineering notation format in matlab ??

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Olivier

Re: import data from Cadence to Matlab with engineering notation format

Andres — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:05:04 -0400

I'm not sure about how your data looks like exactly, but if it is text like

10.2M 9.00k
1.23G 3.14
...

you could try my text import function 'txt2mat' (file exchange) and use it's string replacement argument with
{{'G','e9'}, {'M','e6'}, ...}

I haven't checked this, and there might be other ways to import EN format (but I don't know them), so take this just as a quick guess.

Regards
Andres

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