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PSF name changed - unable to run anything

The Setlaz
The Setlaz over 12 years ago

Hi,

 

I'm having very strange issue here. When I run a transient simulation, the PSF output file is named 'an1.tran' and I am not able to run any OCEAN script on it, nor to do any calculation with the Results Browser and the calculator.

 

It always return me the same error message in the ICW :

expression evaluation failed: val is not legal.
expression evaluation failed: val is not legal.
expression evaluation failed: v("clk_p" ?result "tran")
"(\"lowerCase\" 0 t nil (\"*Error* lowerCase: argument #1 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = \\\"S\\\")\" nil))"

 

But if I write in the ICW :

plot(v("clk_p" ?result "tran")) 

It work just fine.

(same if I use getData( ) )

I didn't change anything since for this to happen and I have no idea how to fix it.

 

Thank you.

Damien

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 12 years ago
    This seems rather strange, and is not behaviour I've seen before.

    What version of the IC tools are you using (Help->About in the CIW will give the subversion). Also which simulator subversion are you using (eg from the spectre output log)?

    Have you set which simulator output format, from Save->Options in ADE. Are you even using ADE? What are the analysis statements at the bottom of your input.scs (assuming you're using spectre).

    Sorry for asking these questions - unfortunately you didn't give much to go on yet.

    Thanks,

    Andrew
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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 12 years ago
    This seems rather strange, and is not behaviour I've seen before.

    What version of the IC tools are you using (Help->About in the CIW will give the subversion). Also which simulator subversion are you using (eg from the spectre output log)?

    Have you set which simulator output format, from Save->Options in ADE. Are you even using ADE? What are the analysis statements at the bottom of your input.scs (assuming you're using spectre).

    Sorry for asking these questions - unfortunately you didn't give much to go on yet.

    Thanks,

    Andrew
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