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Problem in reading-in in Spectre

SaeedR

 Hi dear fellows,

 I just upgraded my Cadence from version 5 to 6. In version 5, there was a portAdapter componentwhich was in rfExamples library. After upgrading to version 6 and adding the same library, I can still drag and drop the portAdapter to the schematic but there is a problem while doing the simulation. The error after any simulation is as follows:

 Error found by spectre in `portAdapter', during circuit read-in.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected comma ",". Expected close parenthesis.
    ERROR (SFE-683): "input.scs" 16: Badly formed parameters statement.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
Warning from spectre in `portAdapter', during circuit read-in.
    WARNING (SFE-702): "input.scs" 16: Use of the comma character in node lists is not supported.
Error found by spectre in `portAdapter', during circuit read-in.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-678): "input.scs" 16: Statement is not in Spectre format. Use `simulator lang=spice' to introduce spice language sections.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 16: Unexpected operator "*". Expected end of file or end of line.
    ERROR (SFE-678): "input.scs" 16: Statement is not in Spectre format. Use `simulator lang=spice' to introduce spice language sections.
Error found by spectre during circuit read-in.
    ERROR (SFE-874): "input.scs" 59: Unexpected comma ",". Expected close parenthesis.

 

Would you please let me know if you had this problem befroe and how you figured it out.

 

Thanks

Saeed

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  • Andrew Beckett

    My guess from the symptoms is that you may be using Virtuoso in 64 bit mode on a RHEL6 (or similar kernel level to RHEL6) and too old a version of IC61. We only officially started supporting that in IC6.1.5 ISR 12 (might have been 13, I can't recall).

    Can you type: getVersion(t) in the CIW and also "uname -a" on the UNIX command line and post the results here?

    The issue was that there was an underlying change in the implementation of strcpy() in the C libraries in Linux, which violated assumptions that had been valid on all platforms for the last 20 years or so... We had to go back and fix everywhere which had relied on that assumption.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    My guess from the symptoms is that you may be using Virtuoso in 64 bit mode on a RHEL6 (or similar kernel level to RHEL6) and too old a version of IC61. We only officially started supporting that in IC6.1.5 ISR 12 (might have been 13, I can't recall).

    Can you type: getVersion(t) in the CIW and also "uname -a" on the UNIX command line and post the results here?

    The issue was that there was an underlying change in the implementation of strcpy() in the C libraries in Linux, which violated assumptions that had been valid on all platforms for the last 20 years or so... We had to go back and fix everywhere which had relied on that assumption.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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