Stats

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 8
  • Subscribers 125
  • Views 17394
  • Members are here 0
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Problem with simulating a circuit with spectre

dnelson

When attempting to simulate a simple circuit, I run into this error:

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.

I have not set any command line arguments in Setup->Environment.

Contents of runSimulation:

# runSimulation scripts generated for spectre interactive are not intended to be used for command line.
spectre  input.scs +escchars +log ../psf/spectre.out +inter=mpsc +mpssession=spectre1_13026_1  -format psfxl -rtsf -raw ../psf  +lqtimeout 900 -maxw 5 -maxn 5

And when I run this, I get the error:

ERROR (SPECTRE-129): Invalid command line argument `-rtsf'.
Type `spectre -help' in a terminal window for more information.

By everything I've found, this option is supposed to be "+rtsf" not "-rtsf". My question is, why would it be defaulting to that option, and how can I change it? Many users will be running this exact same simulation, and I need it to work through the GUI, without the need to modify that runSimulation file.

Also, how does this runSimulation file get generated? How does ADE L decide to use those command line options?

Thanks

Parents

  • I looked at the source code, and the only way this can appear is if a "feature" is found. With ADE up and running, what do you get from:

    _artCheckFeature('spectre_commandline_disable_rtsf)

    If this returns t, then what does:

    getShellEnvVar("SPECTRE_FEATURE_FILE")

    return (both of these are in the CIW)?

    I can only imagine that maybe something in your environment is setting this feature somehow. If you run "virtuoso -nocdsinit" - does the problem still occur?

    Probably this needs to go via customer support so that we can debug this properly...

    Regards,

    Andrew.

Reply

  • I looked at the source code, and the only way this can appear is if a "feature" is found. With ADE up and running, what do you get from:

    _artCheckFeature('spectre_commandline_disable_rtsf)

    If this returns t, then what does:

    getShellEnvVar("SPECTRE_FEATURE_FILE")

    return (both of these are in the CIW)?

    I can only imagine that maybe something in your environment is setting this feature somehow. If you run "virtuoso -nocdsinit" - does the problem still occur?

    Probably this needs to go via customer support so that we can debug this properly...

    Regards,

    Andrew.

Children
No Data

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.