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Spectre terminated due to fatal error

SSRRaayy
SSRRaayy over 4 years ago

Hello Sir,

Whenever I try to simulate any verilogA code the same error keeps on coming. The log file is attached herewith

Time for Elaboration: CPU = 279.958 ms, elapsed = 603.707 ms.
Time accumulated: CPU = 1.20981 s, elapsed = 1.44188 s.
Peak resident memory used = 40 Mbytes.

spectre terminated prematurely due to fatal error.

Time for NDB Parsing: CPU = 2.73958 s, elapsed = 4.86122 s.
Time accumulated: CPU = 2.73958 s, elapsed = 4.86122 s.
Peak resident memory used = 32.5 Mbytes.

Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB/ (775)
Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB//1153_cds_work_project_sarlogic1_veriloga_veriloga.va.sarlogic1.ahdlcmi/ (775)
Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB//1153_cds_work_project_sarlogic1_veriloga_veriloga.va.sarlogic1.ahdlcmi/Linux/ (775)
Compiling ahdlcmi module library.

Error found by spectre during AHDL read-in.
ERROR (VACOMP-1008): Cannot compile ahdlcmi module library. Check the log file input.ahdlSimDB//1153_cds_work_project_sarlogic1_veriloga_veriloga.va.sarlogic1.ahdlcmi/Linux/../ahdlcmi.out for details. If the compiler ran out of memory, use 'setenv CDS_CMI_COMPLEVEL 0', and try again. If the reason for the failure was a syntax error, contact your Cadence Customer Support representative with the netlist, log files, behavioral model files, and any other information that can help identify the problem.
ERROR (SFE-91): Error when elaborating the instance sarlogic1. Simulation should be terminated.


Time for Elaboration: CPU = 656.9 ms, elapsed = 1.82147 s.
Time accumulated: CPU = 3.41748 s, elapsed = 6.72062 s.
Peak resident memory used = 40 Mbytes.

spectre terminated prematurely due to fatal error.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago
    SSRRaayy said:
    ERROR (VACOMP-1008): Cannot compile ahdlcmi module library. Check the log file input.ahdlSimDB//1153_cds_work_project_sarlogic1_veriloga_veriloga.va.sarlogic1.ahdlcmi/Linux/../ahdlcmi.out for details. If the compiler ran out of memory, use 'setenv CDS_CMI_COMPLEVEL 0', and try again. If the reason for the failure was a syntax error, contact your Cadence Customer Support representative with the netlist, log files, behavioral model files, and any other information that can help identify the problem.

    Did you look in the file that it asked you to look at? There may well be info there about missing libraries, or some other issue.

    You also didn't give any indication as to the version of Spectre you're using. The chances however are that the ahdlcmi.out file will give you the clues as to what's going wrong.

    Andrew

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