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Calibre and Assura missing from my layout menu

wgtkan
wgtkan over 12 years ago
Calibre and Assura menu is missing from my layout window. The PDK came with no configuration tempelates (.cdsinit or .cdsenv). I read the documentation but couldn’t find any help. What should I do to resolve this issue.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago

    The colour information is almost certainly nothing to do with this - it's an environment issue. If the colours are all yellow, it probably means that your display.drf file is not being found - either it was supposed to be in the working directory and you're running from the wrong place, or the PDK is not loading it. The explanation could be many things, but I'm sure it's nothing to do with the Cadence tools themselves.

    As for extraction "wasn't working" is not very specific. It almost certainly would have given errors in the log file when you ran RCX. If you're running Assura RCX, that's not advisable because it hasn't been updated for many years; the RC extraction tool became a separate product, QRC, now Quantus QRC, many years ago and should be installed from the "EXT" release stream (EXT142 is the latest version). Maybe that's your problem?

    I would suggest contacting customer support (as I have advised before). Figuring this out from so little information is really hard.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago

    The colour information is almost certainly nothing to do with this - it's an environment issue. If the colours are all yellow, it probably means that your display.drf file is not being found - either it was supposed to be in the working directory and you're running from the wrong place, or the PDK is not loading it. The explanation could be many things, but I'm sure it's nothing to do with the Cadence tools themselves.

    As for extraction "wasn't working" is not very specific. It almost certainly would have given errors in the log file when you ran RCX. If you're running Assura RCX, that's not advisable because it hasn't been updated for many years; the RC extraction tool became a separate product, QRC, now Quantus QRC, many years ago and should be installed from the "EXT" release stream (EXT142 is the latest version). Maybe that's your problem?

    I would suggest contacting customer support (as I have advised before). Figuring this out from so little information is really hard.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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