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Error while simulating a project on ADE(XL)

FaisalShahzad
FaisalShahzad over 4 years ago

Hello. I have recently purchased the license of cadence tools and we have installed tools and configure license file successfully. While running the simulation for a simple CMOS inverter i get the following error. There is no error in the designing part. however, while simulating I get the following error on the virtuoso log window.

For more details, consult the job log file:

/mnt/cadence_tools/logs_root/logs0/Job4.log

ERROR (ADEXL-5031): While simulating run Interactive.2, point 1, test Projects:CMOSINVERTER_TB:1, received error:

Simulation Error:

------------------------------

Simulator failed to complete the simulation.

The simulator process returned a non-zero exit code, indicating failure.

The simulator could have crashed or intentionally returned to indicate an error.

Check the simulator log file for more information. Common causes:

1. Simulator may have crashed during exit even after reporting success in log file.

2. Abrupt automatic simulator termination (e.g., SIGKILL) because the simulator process has

exceeded resource limits, which can be specified in the distribution system or

by the kernel itself (e.g., the Linux OOMKiller).

3. Manual termination of the simulator process.

./runSimulation can be manually run in this directory to check the issue.

I looked through the path "/mnt/cadence_tools/logs_root/logs0/Job4.log" and it showed the following errors

ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultInfoAnalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultDoSampling' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
      ...successful.
ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.

ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultDoSampling' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultDoSampling' is either not declared or does not exist
        for analysis 'tran'.
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.
INFO (ADEXL-1654): Simulator 'spectre' doesn't provide simulation failure
        information at the analysis level. So 'SkipFailedAnalyses' for option
        'evalOutputsOnSimFailure' wouldn't work for this simulator.

Kindly if someone could help me rectify this problem, i will be grateful

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago

    Which tool versions are you using? Knowing both the IC version (Help->About - please give all the digits) and the Spectre sub-version ("spectre -W" from the command line) matters. From a very quick search I saw a report of this when using wildly mismatched versions (a very new IC version with a 4-5 year older Spectre).

    Andrew.

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  • FaisalShahzad
    FaisalShahzad over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    We are using IC618, the version is "IC6.1.8-64B.500.19".

    &  have installed following versions successfully:
     SPB174: Version: SPB:Hotfix:17.40.019~lnx86  
     SPECTRE201 : SPECTRE20.10.298, Version: 20.10.298.isr9
    When I type "spectre -W" , the following error comes
    [root@Chip_Client_2 netlist]# spectre -W
    ERROR: can't determine installation root.
           can't find executable "/mnt/cadence_tools/SPB174/tools.lnx86/spectre/bin/spectre"
    ERROR: Unable to set shared library paths.
    We are still unable to understand the occurrence of the following errors. Kindly guide us through. 
    Regards
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  • FaisalShahzad
    FaisalShahzad over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    We are using IC618, the version is "IC6.1.8-64B.500.19".

    &  have installed following versions successfully:
     SPB174: Version: SPB:Hotfix:17.40.019~lnx86  
     SPECTRE201 : SPECTRE20.10.298, Version: 20.10.298.isr9
    When I type "spectre -W" , the following error comes
    [root@Chip_Client_2 netlist]# spectre -W
    ERROR: can't determine installation root.
           can't find executable "/mnt/cadence_tools/SPB174/tools.lnx86/spectre/bin/spectre"
    ERROR: Unable to set shared library paths.
    We are still unable to understand the occurrence of the following errors. Kindly guide us through. 
    Regards
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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago in reply to FaisalShahzad

    I moved this to a more suitable forum (the Questions, Suggestions and Feedback forum is not for technical questions).

    You need to ensure the path for SPECTRE is before the path for SPB174 in your UNIX $PATH. That way it will pick the right spectre executable (for various reasons there are pieces of spectre also included in the SPB release, but it's not a functioning version that is useful).

    Andrew

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  • FaisalShahzad
    FaisalShahzad over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew for your quick reply. i have set the path for SPECTRE. the previous error seems solved. now when i run the simulation it give following error:

    ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
            for analysis 'tran'.
    ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultInfoAnalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
            for analysis 'tran'.
    ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultDoSampling' is either not declared or does not exist
            for analysis 'tran'.
          ...successful.
    ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
            for analysis 'tran'.
    ERROR (ADE-5704): Variable 'options faultanalysis' is either not declared or does not exist
            for analysis 'tran'.

    can you help about how to fix it?

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago in reply to FaisalShahzad
    FaisalShahzad said:
    can you help about how to fix it?

    Not really, mainly because I'm going to be on vacation from later today and don't have any time to look into this today. I would suggest you contact customer support - that's the right avenue for this.

    Andrew

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