Simulation progress status gone in ADE Explorer (IC6.1.8-64b.500.25)

This is a known issue - mentioned also in this thread. It happens if you either start the simulation from within the schematic, or switch tabs to the schematic (and then back to Explorer) during a running simulation. Yes, it should be fixed. Please contact customer support and request a duplicate of Cadence Change Request 2007511 be filed on your behalf to increase the priority.

Andrew 

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the reply. Just as a point of reference: I did not start the sim from schematic. I started it from Maestro -> Simulation menu -> Netlist and Run. Also I did not switch to schematic view during the run.
What I experienced recently is my laptop got upgraded to windows 11 and I am accessing a remote server using Exceed on Demand Client 13.8.0.0 (rather old) to launch Virtuoso. I wonder if those combination have anything to do with exacerbating the issue.
Anyway thank you again.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the reply. Just as a point of reference: I did not start the sim from schematic. I started it from Maestro -> Simulation menu -> Netlist and Run. Also I did not switch to schematic view during the run.
What I experienced recently is my laptop got upgraded to windows 11 and I am accessing a remote server using Exceed on Demand Client 13.8.0.0 (rather old) to launch Virtuoso. I wonder if those combination have anything to do with exacerbating the issue.
Anyway thank you again.

George,

I'm not sure that Exceed on Demand would have anything to do with this, or the fact that you're running from Windows 11. I suspect it's another symptom of the same issue (there are a few things that can trigger it). It might be worth contacting customer support to share exactly what you're doing.

A (sort of) workaround is to use Simulation->Diagnostics which adds another tab with information about the simulations run so far, but it's not quite the same...

Andrew

Dear George,

If you happen to be interested, I used a UNIX script to monitor the status jobs called "progressxl". It basically traverses your simulation data base and prints out the last line of each spectre.out file. To determine how many jobs are complete or how many have errors, I used it with a "grep" command to filter results.

As an example, to find how many jobs have completed with 0 errors for a job called "interactive.12", one would navigate to the top level of your simulation directory (i.e., where the directories "interactive.X" are located) and issue the command:

$ progressxl 12 | grep -c "0 errors"

Without the grep command, the command displays a line for each directory entitled "Checking <job_number>..." followed by the last line of its spectre.out file.

The file is attached. You might place this is your ~/bin directory after making it executable using the command:

$ chmod +x progressxl

to make it available in any directory in which you instantiate it (assuming your ~/bin directory is in your search variable PATH).

Shawn

PS - I had to append the ".txt" extension to allow me to upload the file. You may rename the file from "progressxl.txt" to "progressxl".

#!/bin/ksh

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: progress Interactive.<number>"
    exit 127
fi

# First head down through all of the directories recursively
  echo "Scanning directories"
  #SAU_DIR_LIST=`t`
  SAU_DIR_LIST=`ls Interactive.$1 | grep "[0-9]"`
  for SUB_DIR in ${SAU_DIR_LIST}
  do
    echo "Checking ${SUB_DIR}..."
    if [ ! -d "./Interactive.$1/${SUB_DIR}" ]
    then
      echo "${SUB_DIR} is not a directory - skipping."
    else
      # grep Current ${SUB_DIR}/psf/spectre.out
      tail -1 ./Interactive.$1/${SUB_DIR}/sd*/psf/spectre.out
    fi
  done
  echo "Finished scanning directories..."