Does Assura version affect QRC

Hi,

Andrew has answered a very similar question in this forum. Check it out here.

Cheers,

Riad.

I saw this post, and Andrew goes into detail about the IC compatibility but not the compatibility with the version of Assura used. Are the IC versions and assure linked? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something somewhere? 

Hi Jon,

I don't know if QRC is affected by the Assura version (I don't really work with Assura), but the version you have seems pretty old.

Can you try Assura 3.2 or 4.1 (obviously they will need to be the version that works with the CDB database, i.e. 5141) ?

Regards,

Lawrence.

Upgrade your Assura version or give it a try without Assura altogether. As Andrew said in his post: "... Also you must not have ASSURAHOME set, otherwise the QRC menu does not appear, and instead you access it via Assura->QRC"

Cheers,

Riad.

 I'm not sure about EXT81, but in EXT71 you also have to setenv QRC_ENABLE_EXTRACTION="t".

You don't need QRC_ENABLE_EXTRACTION in EXT81; just having QRC_HOME and $QRC_HOME/bin in your path ($QRC_HOME/tools/bin should work too) should be sufficient. Also, now the requirement to not have ASSURAHOME set has gone. I get both Assura and QRC menus.

It may well be that there's some dependency on the Assura version. Try unsetting ASSURAHOME and removing Assura from the path to see if that fixes it.

As has been said, Assura 3.1.5 is quite old, so I'd recommend moving to 3.2 - I can't test 3.1.5 because I no longer have it installed.

Regards,

Andrew.

Or Assura 4.1 of course...

Andrew.

Sorry for the delay in an update guys. I just switched over to Assura 3.1.7 (seems to be the newest version I have access to) but i'm still having no luck. I'm going to post what i have in my shell script, cds and csh files in hope that maybe someone can find some silly mistake as I'm very inexperienced with linux.

shellscript:

source ece322_mod.csh
ece322_cds_mod &

ece322_mod:

if (${?PATH}) then
        setenv PATH .:${PATH}
else
        setenv PATH .
endif
if (${?LD_LIBRARY_PATH}) then
        setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
else
        setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .
endif

#Cadence Setup
setenv QRC_HOME /usr/cds/ext-8.1.4
setenv CDSHOME /usr/cds/ic-5.1.41-USR6
setenv CLS_CDSD_COMPATIBILITY_LOCKING NO
set path = ($QRC_HOME/tools/extraction/bin $QRC_HOME/tools/bin $CDSHOME/tools/bin $CDSHOME/tools/dfII/bin $path)
setenv CDS_Netlisting_Mode Analog
#Following line works around GLIB2.0 problem in SUSE93
#setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1
limit coredumpsize 0

################ ultrasim setup
setenv IC ${CDSHOME}
setenv LDV ${CDSHOME}/../ldv-5.1
setenv MMSIM ${CDSHOME}/../mmsim-6.0
setenv PATH ${MMSIM}/tools/bin:${MMSIM}/tools/dfII/bin:${LDV}/tools/bin:${LDV}/tools/dfII/bin:${IC}/tools/bin:${IC}/tools/dfII/bin:${IC}/tools/concice/bin:${IC}/tools/dracula/bin:${PATH}



# The following line works around GLIB2.0 problem in SUSE93
#setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1
limit coredumpsize 0

ece322_cds_mod:

# global variables
setenv ECE322_HOME /afs/ece/class/ece322
setenv GPDK090 /afs/ece/class/ece322/pdk/gpdk090_v4.2

################ first set the best new cadence location for this
if ( -d /usr/cds/ic-5.1.41-USR6 ) then
  setenv CADENCEDIR /usr/cds/ic-5.1.41-USR6
else
  setenv CADENCEDIR /afs/ece/support/cds/share/image/usr/cds/ic-5.1.41-USR6
endif
################ QRC
#setenv QRC_HOME /usr/cds/ext-8.1.4
#already defined
################ ASSURA HOME DIR
setenv ASSURAHOME /usr/cds/assura-3.17
setenv Path ${PATH}:${ASSURAHOME}/tools/assura/bin



################ program specific variables
set exe = icfb # set default exe here
set mode = ""
set cmos_tech = "gpdk090" # set default technology
set cds_mode = "not_set"

################ process help & usage

if ($#argv > 0) then
   switch ("$argv[1]")
      case "-help":
      case "-h":
      case "-usage":
      case "-u":
         set shell_exit = 0
         goto display_usage
         breaksw
      default:
         breaksw
   endsw
endif
                                
################ process arguments

while ($#argv >= 1)
  switch ("$argv[1]")
      case "-target_tech":
      case "-tech_aim":
      case "-tech":
      case "-t":
         shift
         if ($#argv >= 1) then
            set cmos_tech = $argv[1]
            shift
         endif
         breaksw
     case "-mode"
     case "-m"
         shift
         if ($#argv >= 1) then
            set mode = $argv[1]
            shift
         else
            set shell_exit = 1
           goto display_usage
           breaksw          
         endif
         breaksw
      case "-update"
      case "-up"
      case "-u"
         shift
         set update
         breaksw
     default:
        set shell_exit = 1
        goto display_usage
        breaksw
  endsw
end



### check specified mode
switch ($mode)
   case ds:
      set exe = icds
      breaksw
   case ms:
      set exe = icms
      breaksw
   case fb:
      set exe = icfb
      breaksw
   case lyp:
      set exe = layoutPlus
      breaksw
   case ly:
      set exe = layout
      breaksw
   case ce:
      set exe = icca
      breaksw
   case msfb:
      set exe = msfb
      breaksw
   case ca:
      set exe = icca
      breaksw
   default:
      breaksw
endsw

# copy .csdinit
if (! -e ./.cdsinit) then
    cp ${ECE322_HOME}/.cdsinit .
    echo "Copying file .cdsinit..."
endif
chmod 555 ./.cdsinit

# copy cds.lib
if (! -e ./cds.lib) then
    cp ${ECE322_HOME}/pdk/cds.lib .
    echo "Copying file cds.lib..."
endif
chmod 775 ./cds.lib

# copy display.drf
if (! -e ./display.drf) then
    cp ${GPDK090}/dfIItechFiles/display.drf .
    echo "Copying file display.drf..."
endif

################ call up Cadence

if (${?DEBUG}) then
  echo ""
  echo "(DEBUG)! Calling up CDS:"
  echo "${exe}"
  echo ""
endif


### Do it
set exe_with_path = "${CDSHOME}/tools/dfII/bin/${exe}"
${exe_with_path}

exit($status)

link to ifcb screenshot:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9756/ifcbss.jpg 

 Hi Jsierra

Here are the requirements:
a. "Assura" menu only needs "ASSURAHOME" variable to be defined in cshrc file

b. "QRC" menu needs the following:
- "QRC_HOME" variable to be defined in cshrc file
- EXT81 and above
- Path should include $QRC_HOME/tools/bin
- Min version of Assura needed for QRC menu is 3.2. If not, ASSURAHOME variable should not be set
- IC5141.500.6.10 and above

The only workaround for your situation is to include the following line in your cshrc file and access QRC form through "Assura->Run RCX".

setenv QRC_ENABLE_EXTRACTION
(No value is needed for the above variable)

The form title should now read "QRC Parasitic Extraction Run Form" instead of "Assura Parasitic Extraction Form". You can also find more info on QRC menu setup in Appendix F of QRC user guide located at $QRC_HOME/doc/qrcxUser/qrcxUser.pdf.

AV317 is really too outdated. If possible, please upgrade to AV41HF3.

Best regards
Quek