MMSIM Issue with IC5141

Your use of "before" and "after" is a bit counter to the usual way of describing this (which is whether the path to MMSIM is before or after the path to IC in the $path variable). Because you're prepending paths in the two updates to the $path variable, that's why your terminology was a bit back to front. Anyway, the key is that with IC5141 you really need to have the MMSIM path before the IC path in the $path variable, which is what your second update did.

Unfortunately there was no image in the post above, so I can't see the error. Can you just paste the text of the CIW error rather than posting an image?

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew for your reply. Once i run the scripts,it loads CIW but there error reads:
"cds_root: the tool is not available on lnx86 platform. unable to find cadence installation"
I am not able to open library editor. but i can open my cell views and things but cannot run simulations.

Dear Andrew. Please find following log:
\o Program: @(#)$CDS: icfb.exe version 5.1.0 11/22/2011 01:38 (cicln04) $
\o Hierarchy: /home/cdsmgr/cad/tools/cadence/ic_5.1/tools.lnx86/dfII/
\o Sub version: sub-version 5.10.41.500.6.151 (32-bit addresses)
\o Host name (type): I02CP2201@fe.up.pt (x86_64)
\o Operating system: Linux 2.6.32-642.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 00:36:12 UTC 2016
\o X display name: :0.0
\o X server: CentOS
\o Depth of Visual (Root): 24 (24)
\o Number of Planes Used: 24
\o X version: 11.0 (vendor release 11704000)
\o Window Manager: other
\o User Name: NASA
\o Working Directory: I02CP2201@fe.up.pt:/home/NASA/projects
\o Process Id: 4563
\o
\o COPYRIGHT © 1992-2009 CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
\o © 1992-2009 UNIX SYSTEMS Laboratories INC.,
\o Reproduced with permission.
\o
\o This Cadence Design Systems program and online documentation are
\o proprietary/confidential information and may be disclosed/used only
\o as authorized in a license agreement controlling such use and disclosure.
\o
\o RESTRICTED RIGHTS NOTICE (SHORT FORM)
\o Use/reproduction/disclosure is subject to restriction
\o set forth at FAR 1252.227-19 or its equivalent.
\p >
\o 8-bit PseudoColor Visual is not available (default Visual option).
\o Using 24-bit TrueColor Visual.
\o The program xdpyinfo can be used to verify the Visuals available
\o for your display.
\o Loading PRshare.cxt
\o Loaded the PVS environment.
\o Loading LVS.cxt
\o Loading layerProc.cxt
\o Loading ams.cxt
\o Loading acv.cxt
\o Loading auCore.cxt
\o Loading schView.cxt
\o Loading selectSv.cxt
\o Loading seismic.cxt
\o
\o //
\o // Calibre Skill Interface * (v2013.4_15.12) *
\o //
\o // Copyright Mentor Graphics Corporation 2005
\o // All Rights Reserved.
\o // THIS WORK CONTAINS TRADE SECRET AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
\o // WHICH IS THE PROPERTY OF MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION
\o // OR ITS LICENSORS AND IS SUBJECT TO LICENSE TERMS.
\o //
\o //
\o END OF USER CUSTOMIZATION
\o Loading oasis.cxt
\o Loading analog.cxt
\o Loading /home/NASA/Desktop/ADS2011/idf/skill/5.1.0/ads.cxt
\p >
\o Loading spectrei.cxt
\o Loading spectreinl.cxt
\o Loading hspiceD.cxt
\o Loading msgHandler.cxt
\o Loading UltraSim.cxt
\o Loading AMSOSS.cxt
\o Loading AMS.cxt
\o Loading apsi.cxt
\o cds_root: ERROR: The tool 'cds_root' does no_t seem to be available on the
\o cds_root: platform 'lnx86' in your installation:
\o cds_root: ERROR: The tool 'cds_root' does no_t seem to be available on the
\o cds_root: platform 'lnx86' in your installation:
\o cds_root: '/home/cdsmgr/cad/tools/cadence/mmsim'
\o cds_root: '/home/cdsmgr/cad/tools/cadence/mmsim'
\o Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.
\o Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.
\o Please fix this and try again.
\o Please fix this and try again.

I've not seen this behaviour - but then again you have some unnecessary paths in your $path. All you should need is:

MMSIM/bin
IC/tools/bin
IC/tools/dfII/bin

you have numerous others which shouldn't be needed. Perhaps you can also post the output of:

ls ~cdsmgr/cad/tools/cadence/mmsim

I tried reproducing it on an RHEL6 machine (with similar versions) and all worked OK for me. You may be best advised to contact customer support so that we can have a webex with you to take a look - doing this via the forums is hard as it has a slow round trip time!

Regards,

Andrew.

I also want to clarify that you have a very good reason for running these really old versions of our tools. Otherwise, you will have much better luck with newer versions.

Thanks Andrew for your time. Here is the output of mmsim folder:
[NASA@I02CP2201@fe ~/projects]$ ls ~cdsmgr/cad/tools/cadence/mmsim/
bin install share
data installData tools
doc installer_vars.properties tools.lnx86
Hotfix_MMSIM12.11.096_lnx86.sdp iscape_logs
ic_index.sdx oa_v22.43.015
I am now taking the back up and planning to reinstall. if you find something in the mean time, it would be great.

yes my only fear is change. I am at a very critical stage of my chip and don't want to risk it with a newer version with which i do not have much experience.

Bilal Porto said:

yes my only fear is change. I am at a very critical stage of my chip and don't want to risk it with a newer version with which i do not have much experience.

Although I'm not sure why you're worrying about changing version when the version you have isn't actually working for some reason!

Andrew.

QRC can extract RLCK and is very capable in that area. Also, "U" is spelt "you" (there's no tax on characters in the forums - see the end of the forum guidelines - this is something that irritates me and makes it less likely that I'll respond, for future reference...)

If you want to extract L and K in QRC, simply pick that extraction mode on the form (e.g. RLC or RLCK). I can't provide you a tutorial for Calibre (it's not a Cadence tool - it's from Mentor Graphics) and the documentation for QRC should really be sufficient here

Regards,

Andrew.