analog final block

All,

With respect to earlier discussions of an analog initial block we had
previously dismissed an analog final block as being less relevant. Maybe we
should reconsider this as where an analog initial block may open a file to
read data from that is used in initialization. If data from that file is
also needed later on in the simulation then an analog final block may be
usefull for closing that file. An final_step event would in that case not
always be able to handle the closing of files, for instance in the case of
a DC sweep. The analog final block would then be guaranteed to be run after
all of the regular analog blocks have been processed, and prior to any
sebsequent analog initial blocks are processed in case of a (DC) parametric
sweep.

Alternatively, the analog final block can act as a conceptually simpler
description of an analog final_step event and obviously with most of the
same limitations as a global event - no contribution statements, no analog
operators, no event control statements, but support for access functions.

Does this make any sense?

Cheers,
Marq

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