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Problem in simulating a circuit with spectre

pdatta

Hi

I am new with linux and cadence. So, the problem I am facing may be a very simple one. But I couldn't find any solution in google and hence, I'm posting. I installed Cadence custom IC 6.15 and MMSIM 12 using iscape in ubuntu 12.04 32 bit OS.Then I installed NCSU freepdk45. Everything seem to work fine. When I run virtuoso, no error or warning in the cds.log file.

But problem occurs when I try to simulate a circuit. I tried to simulate with spectre (I don't have license for hspice). In doing the simulation I did the following things:

1. Initialize the spectre (simulation run directory: spectre.runl).

2. Lunch ADE L, choose simulator/directory/host

3. define model card path, set the stimuli 

4. choose the analysis,  select outputs to be plotted on schematic

5. then choose netlist and run.

When all of these are done I get an error message in the cds.log stating:

ERROR (ADE-3036): Errors encountered during simulation. The simulator run log has not been generated.

        Possible cause could be an invalid command line option for the version of the simulator

        you are running. Choose Setup->Environment and verify that the command line options

        specified in the userCmdLineOption field are supported for the simulator.

        Alternatively, run the simulator standalone using the runSimulation file in the netlist

        directory to know the exact cause of the error. 

So, if you please help me solving this problem, I would really appreciate it.

Palash Datta 

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  • The Base release was the initial release of the software. During its life, various fixes and updates to the software occur, and these are captured as Hotfixes (sometimes known as "ISRs").

    If you install a Hotfix release using InstallScape then it automatically downloads whatever components it needs from the Hotfix release, plus any components that still remain from the Base release. Often by a later hotfix not much of the Base release remains - because most things will have changed during the lifetime of a release.

    You certainly do not need to install the Base release first and then apply the Hotfix to it.

    Note that if you choose to install by downloading complete images rather than letting InstallScape download for you, then you may have to download the images for both the hotfix and the base release (so this is less efficient, because you download a lot of stuff that is not needed); you would start by installing the Hotfix, and then it will prompt you if it needs the image for the Base release (I haven't tried this for a while, so I can't remember whether IC615 Hotfix needs the base release at all).

    Hope that helps. Not sure what this has to do with the original question - please pay attention to the Forum Guidelines (the first post in each forum) which politely asks you not to post on the end of old threads.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • The Base release was the initial release of the software. During its life, various fixes and updates to the software occur, and these are captured as Hotfixes (sometimes known as "ISRs").

    If you install a Hotfix release using InstallScape then it automatically downloads whatever components it needs from the Hotfix release, plus any components that still remain from the Base release. Often by a later hotfix not much of the Base release remains - because most things will have changed during the lifetime of a release.

    You certainly do not need to install the Base release first and then apply the Hotfix to it.

    Note that if you choose to install by downloading complete images rather than letting InstallScape download for you, then you may have to download the images for both the hotfix and the base release (so this is less efficient, because you download a lot of stuff that is not needed); you would start by installing the Hotfix, and then it will prompt you if it needs the image for the Base release (I haven't tried this for a while, so I can't remember whether IC615 Hotfix needs the base release at all).

    Hope that helps. Not sure what this has to do with the original question - please pay attention to the Forum Guidelines (the first post in each forum) which politely asks you not to post on the end of old threads.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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