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memory error

shalugrv
shalugrv over 9 years ago

hai all,

I am using cadence ADE to design my circuit...its quite big...when I run  tran simulation i get an error mentioning "insufficient memory available refer to spectre h memory".....the peak resident memory used is shown as around 600 MB....can anyone tell me what this mean and how to solve this problem....please...

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 9 years ago

    You probably need to run spectre in 64 bit mode to allow it to access more memory. The default is 32 bit mode (for historical reasons). On the Setup->Environment form in ADE there should be a checkbox to run spectre in 64 bit mode. Try that.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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