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Hello, Im trying to simulate an adder circuit which produces an output depending on an 'input offset'. That is the offset gets added to itself and whenever the addition results in an overflow it should produce an output. The adder is a 4 bit adder and so whener the sum exceeds 1111 it shud produce a carry out and the resulting sum shud substract 16 from itself and produce a new sum which would then be smaller than 1111. I hope u get the point. I made schematic for the circuit which consists of a simple 4 bit Ripple carry adder and a register driven by the clock because I want the addition to take place with the clock. The output of the adder feeds the register and the reg op feeds one of the inputs to the adder thus creating a loop structure. After doing that I create a symbol out of it and use it in a TB to see the behavior. After certain simulation trials of the Test bench i get this strange error in the spectre.out file which says that "I11 instance is an instance of an undefined model subcircuit" . Here 'I11' refers to the instance name of the symbol I created earlier. This strange error disappears when i make an exact copy of the same Test Bench schematic into another schematic. And again after a while the same error pops up and then i recreate another schematic and then it works..which is becoming kind of annoying. Does anyone have any pointers as to why is it happening? Hope to get some hints about that. Best regards, Aijaz Baig.


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    I didn't quite understand all of what you were asking above (probably just a matter of your English).

    Anyway, for the instance I11, this is a symbol of a particular cell. For that cell, do you have other views along side it in the library manager? If so, what are they? (I'm assuming one is schematic, but are there any other view names?)

    Regards,

    Andrew.


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    I didn't quite understand all of what you were asking above (probably just a matter of your English).

    Anyway, for the instance I11, this is a symbol of a particular cell. For that cell, do you have other views along side it in the library manager? If so, what are they? (I'm assuming one is schematic, but are there any other view names?)

    Regards,

    Andrew.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by adbeckett
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