ADE XL....Numerous license warnings and delayed run results

 Figured it out.  I was launching an ADE-XL window from my schematic, which opened fine, but we techinically have a ADE-GXL configuration.  I can run a straight L fine to test my sim-bench, but it doesn't like running under an XL configuration.  If I launch a GXL window (same as XL), then I don't get the warnings during a simulation.

 Not sure if the above made sense, but simply put, if you have a GXL configuration, you can run a simple L window, but then need to launch a GXL window to look at corners/statistics!  We used to have only standalone XL's, so I didn't have this problem previously.

 Hey Andrew

 I think I figured it out, but we are running IC6.1.4.500.5  ADE-GXL

Thanks

Hi,

Glad you solved the problem.

From your intial post I would have guessed that this might be a license issue. Although this may no longer be relevant in this case, there is a utility in the IC61x hierarchy called perf_test that can be used to help diagnose issues with license problems, use the "-h" option to find out how to use it. It can measure license check out time, network latency and other mesaures.

Regards,

Lawrence.

You can also use the following SKILL to set cdsenv settings:

envSetVal("license" "ADELicenseCheckoutOrder"  'string "GXL,L,XL")
envSetVal("wavescan.application" "VIVALicenseCheckoutOrder" 'string "ADE,VIVA")

(change the order as appropriate) - this way you can tell ADE/ADE XL which licenses to check first). This is covered in the documentation, so  search for ADELicenseCheckoutOrder in cdnshelp and you'll find the details.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I checked the doc about a the LicenseCheckoutOrderand and I got the following warning messages:

*WARNING* Line ignored: (envSetVal("license" "ADELicenseCheckoutOrder" 'string "GXL,XL,L"))

*WARNING* Line must contain 4 elements.

*WARNING* Line ignored: (envSetVal("wavescan.application" "VIVALicenseCheckoutOrder" 'string "ADE,VIVA"))

*WARNING* Line must contain 4 elements.

 and, still having the bothering messages:

*WARNING* (icLic-21) License Analog_Design_Environment_L ("95200") is not available to run ADE-L.

Trying to check out the license Analog_Design_Environment_XL ("95210") instead.

 Running IC6.1.4.500

Those lines are in SKILL syntax and would have to be placed in your .cdsinit file. If you want the .cdsenv equivalent, just put:

license ADELicenseCheckoutOrder string "GXL,L,XL"
wavescan.application VIVALicenseCheckoutOrder string "ADE,VIVA"

in your ~/.cdsenv file. That should do it. Sorry if my previous post was a little imprecise - I took it for granted that people would know this (my mistake).

Regards,

Andrew.