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What is the warning Spectre CMI-2178?

VijayNXP
VijayNXP over 4 years ago

1.

In my AMS run using ADE amsstate in Xcelium I get the above warning. 

The warning is saying that GND connection (which is the top level terminal) cannot be connected to the a node inside the hierarchy. 

I tried searching for the warning message but found no documentation around it.

2. 

How do we find information about Spectre warning. The reference document of Spectre seems to mention nothing about it. 

3.

Also is there a command line access to spectre to query about warnings/error messages? 

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    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago

    There's no list of error/warning codes in the documentation or from the command line (so that answers 2 and 3). For item 1, seeing the whole log file would help, since there may be other information in there to pinpoint the problem. Usually it indicates that after hierarchy flattening the pins of a voltage source are shorted out.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago

    There's no list of error/warning codes in the documentation or from the command line (so that answers 2 and 3). For item 1, seeing the whole log file would help, since there may be other information in there to pinpoint the problem. Usually it indicates that after hierarchy flattening the pins of a voltage source are shorted out.

    Andrew.

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