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Monte Carlo simulation in Ocean XL for a text-only netlist

Soner
Soner over 15 years ago

Hi,

I have a netlist and I want to run Monte Carlo simulation. It looks like I need to use ADE XL / OCEAN XL to be able to run Monte Carlo simulation. I generated a script from ADE XL to use as a template and then changed the design command to point to the netlist as follows: design( "netlist" )

;====================== Set to XL mode =========================================
ocnSetXLMode()
;ocnxlTargetCellView( "SY_NOISE" "tb_VCO" "adexl" )
;ocnxlProjectDir( "/tmp/syaldiz" )
;ocnxlResultsLocation( "" )
;ocnxlSimResultsLocation( "" )
ocnxlTargetCellView( "SY_NOISE" "tb_dum" "adexl" )
ocnxlProjectDir(     "/afs/ece.cmu.edu/usr/syaldiz/ic_tools/ibm12s" )
ocnxlResultsLocation(     "/tmp/syaldiz/zz" )
ocnxlSimResultsLocation(    "/tmp/syaldiz/zz" )
;====================== Tests setup ============================================

;---------- Test "vco_noise" -------------
ocnxlBeginTest("vco_noise")
simulator( 'spectre )
;design( "SY_NOISE" "tb_VCO" "schematic")
design( "/afs/ece.cmu.edu/usr/syaldiz/ic_tools/ibm12s/netlist" )
...

When I load the script into Ocean, I get the following error:

ocean> load("oceanScript.ocn")
*WARNING* (icLic-3) Could not get license Analog_Design_Environment_L
(deLicense-3) Could not get a license for ADE L. Trying a higher-tiered license
(deLicense-6) Checked out the license for ADE XL to run ADE L
*Error* strcat: argument #3 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - nil
*Error* load: error while loading file - "oceanScript.ocn"

 Could you please help me with this error?

Thanks in advance,

Soner

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    Soner over 13 years ago
    Hi Aman,

    I did not get any updates on this issue.

    Thanks,
    Soner
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    Soner over 13 years ago
    Hi Aman,

    I did not get any updates on this issue.

    Thanks,
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