Netlist creation error

 Hi,

I don't have time to download and install materials from the site that you mentioned, but the general message seems to be that the netlist procedure ABbnNetlistProc is not defined - this is required to netlist the MOS component's bulk terminal.  Check that your start up procedures are loading SKILL from a .cdsinit file, or perhaps from a library libInit.il file (in the PDK library, for example) - this is most likely where the procedure should be loaded from. If this information does not help, you could look through *.il files and search for the ABbnNetlistProc, it is most likely defined in one of them somewhere but not being loaded, hence the error.

Good luck.

Lawrence.

I suspect that the code is as below - this is from a very old solution (11004934) that is no longer on Cadence Online Support because it's obsolete (it was intended to help customers migrate from the old spectreS way of handling programmable bulk nodes, to the new inherited connection method - the old way was not supported when spectre (direct) was introduced back in IC443).

So the code was to help around 14 years ago... the clue that it was from me was the "AB" in the function name ;-)

Here's the code from that solution (apologies for the blank lines in the solution; it got munged slightly in a migration of our support system to a new system):

defun(ABbnNetlistProc (inst)

    let((formatter netlister bulk sigs)

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        ; Get hold of the formatter and netlister objects

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        formatter=nlGetFormatter(inst)

        netlister=nlGetNetlister(formatter)

        nlPrintInstComments(formatter inst)

        nlPrintIndentString(netlister)

        nlPrintInstName(formatter inst)

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        ; Print the standard signals. Can't use nlPrintInstSignals

        ; because the parentheses would be around the terminals in

        ; the termOrder, and not include the bulk node

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        sigs=nlGetSignalList(inst)

        nlPrintString(netlister " (" car(sigs))

        foreach(sig cdr(sigs)

            nlPrintString(netlister " " sig)

        ) ; foreach

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        ; Get the bn parameter and output that as the connection, if

        ; it is set

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        bulk=nlGetParamStringValue(inst "bn")

        when(member(bulk '("D" "G" "S"))

            bulk=nlGetTerminalSignalName(inst bulk)

            )

        when(bulk

            nlPrintString(netlister " " bulk)

            )

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        ; Write out the close parenthesis, now that the bulk is written

        ;----------------------------------------------------------------

        nlPrintString(netlister ")")

        nlPrintModelName(formatter inst)

        nlPrintInstParameters(formatter inst)

        )

    )