What is roughly the runtime of the characterization task (ngspice) for a 32x16 1w1r SRAM on a state-of-the-art machine ? Still active, but I start wondering after 6h.

@User how much did it take for your SRAM IP ?

What simulator? Do you have multithreading turned on?

ngspice (see question), which is not (really) mutlicore feasible due to the Sparse Matrix and KLU solvers, and I'm not using a NVIDIA GPU for CUSPICE (GPU version of ngspirce). But I stopped the process anyway since I will mess around with the stimulie in GUI mode, eventually, which will also give me an understanding of the runtime. Thanks. PS: Maybe a period of 160ns (as the default stimulie suggests) is a little bit too off for simulation, but I'll see.

ngspice can do parallel BSIM model evaluation if you compile it with with --enable-openmp