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Is it required a particular license to plot internal VerilogA parameters?

Rawcode
Rawcode over 2 years ago

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to plot internal variables of my VerilogA model (they are defined as electrical nodes), but I'm facing some issues.
To do so I click to "Outputs->To be Saved->Select OP Parameters" and I select the VerilogA instance.
Once I'm in the Output panel, I click to the "..." button relative to the instance I've selected, but when I click to "Get from Simulation" the whole software freezes.

Reading the logs both of the license server and cds.log I notice these

-cds.log:

\o Notice from spectre during license check-out.
\o     Waiting for available license for Spectre.

-License server log:

11:37:55 (cdslmd) UNSUPPORTED: "Virtuoso_Acceler_Parallel_sc" (PORT_AT_HOST_PLUS ) REDACTED@REDACTED (No such feature exists. (-5,346:104 "Connection reset by peer"))
11:37:55 (cdslmd) UNSUPPORTED: "Virtuoso_Multi_mode_Simulation" (PORT_AT_HOST_PLUS ) REDACTED@REDACTED [APS Base 980510] (2 licenses) (No such feature exists. (-5,346:104 "Connection reset by peer"))

I also tried to plot the internal value by writing manually the variable name, but I get this error:

ERROR (WIA-1006): Unable to plot expression <OT("/I0" "phase" "REDACTED")> because it does not evaluate to an object that can be plotted, like a waveform or

parametric wave. See the Visualization & Analysis Tool documentation for information

about the types of objects that can be plotted in Visualization & Analysis Tool. Only

the expressions that evaluate to those objects can be plotted.

*Warning* Wave111 is not a waveform object that can be displayed and

will be DELETED automatically.

name: "/I0:phase"

Now I'm wondering, is it necessary to have a particular license to perform such analyses? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance.

P.S.

Here are my licenses (copied from the license file):

# Product Id  : 38500,  [Version: 21.1]
# Product Name: Spectre(R) Classic Simulator
# Licensed Rights:
#   Start Date: 11-nov-2022 Exp Date: 05-mar-2023   Product Qty: 1 Type: Floating
#   Product Comments:
#   Feature: Virtuoso_Spectre               [Version: 21.1] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#
# Product Id  : 95100,  [Version: 6.1.8]
# Product Name: Virtuoso(R) Schematic Editor L
# Licensed Rights:
#   Start Date: 11-nov-2022 Exp Date: 05-mar-2023   Product Qty: 1 Type: Floating
#   Product Comments:
#   Feature: 111                            [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#   Feature: 940                            [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#   Feature: 945                            [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#   Feature: Virtuoso_Adv_Node_Framework    [Version: 20.1] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#   Feature: Virtuoso_Schematic_Editor_L    [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#
# Product Id  : 95260,  [Version: 6.1.8]
# Product Name: Virtuoso(R) ADE Assembler
# Licensed Rights:
#   Start Date: 11-nov-2022 Exp Date: 05-mar-2023   Product Qty: 1 Type: Floating
#   Product Comments:
#   Feature: 111                            [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#   Feature: Virtuoso_ADE_Assembler         [Version: 6.18] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]
#
# Product Id  : COSLITE,  [Version: 1.0]
# Product Name: COSLITE Access
# Licensed Rights:
#   Start Date: 11-nov-2022 Exp Date: 05-mar-2023   Product Qty: 1 Type: Floating
#   Product Comments:
#   Feature: COSLITE_ACCESS                 [Version: 1.0] [Feature Qty Per Product: 1]

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  • Rawcode
    Rawcode over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you very much Andrew! You solved my problem Slight smile

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