Assura41 undefined function - pcDefinePCell

seems the generation of {circuit}.sdb was failed,  however, the cdl generation was correct.

I have added auLvs in cdf~>SimInfo

The most likely explanation is that you have SKILL code in your libInit.il (or loaded from the libInit.il) which is attempting to recreate a PCell by calling pcDefinePCell. You should not do that (and there's no need to do that). When a PCell is defined using pcDefiinePCell, the parameters and the code in the body of the pcDefinePCell are stored in the cellView for that PCell (often a layout view, but could also be a schematic or symbol). There is no need to redefine it each time you start, because it's already stored in the view - and most likely you'd have permission problems because not all users would be able to write to the cellView. Secondly, some interfaces (such as the background netlister process, si) won't even support the pcDefinePCell function and will fail with an error as you've seen.

The only case where you need to load something related to a PCell is when the body of the pcDefinePCell calls other user-defined functions; these functions won't be stored in the cellView and have to be loaded at run-time by everything that needs to be able to evaluate the PCell.

So if you had:

pcDefinePCell(list(ddGetObj("myLib") "mytran" "layout")
  (
    (w 1.0u)
    (l 0.2u)
  )
  let((...)
    myFunctionWhichDoesSomeWork(...)
  )
)

Then you'd need to ensure that the function myFunctionWhichDoesSomeWork is defined via the libInit.il, but you certainly do not (and should not) be loading the file that calls pcDefinePCell.

Regards,

Andrew.