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Encounter does not stream out all cells into a GDS

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Hello all, I used First Encounter v4.1 for place and route, and using following command, a GDS format of the design was made: streamOut ~/WiMax576_0.7.gds -mapFile ~/gds2_cmos90.map -libName WiMax576 -structureName decoder576 -stripes 1 -units 1000 -mode ALL now, in Cadence Virtuoso, all standard cells are appearing like red boxes, and Calibre-DRC stops reading the GDS by following error: ERROR: Cell FILLERCELL32 is referenced but not defined. *** Calibre finished with Exit Code: 4 *** Can someone help me please to resolve the error? Thanks, Ali


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    Hi Ali,

    If the GDS files aren't available, then within Virtuoso the contents of the standard cells should be defined within a Virtuoso library in you cds.lib path. It sounds like that is the situation you have now, but you're seeing "red boxes". Are they empty? Or if you hit "shift-f" in Virtuoso do their contents become visible?

    For Calibre-DRC, if the gds of the standard cells aren't available, you might want to try streamOut's "-outputMacros" option that will stream out the contents of the standard cells as defined in the LEF abstracts rather than what is within the gds.

    -Bob


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    Hi Ali,

    If the GDS files aren't available, then within Virtuoso the contents of the standard cells should be defined within a Virtuoso library in you cds.lib path. It sounds like that is the situation you have now, but you're seeing "red boxes". Are they empty? Or if you hit "shift-f" in Virtuoso do their contents become visible?

    For Calibre-DRC, if the gds of the standard cells aren't available, you might want to try streamOut's "-outputMacros" option that will stream out the contents of the standard cells as defined in the LEF abstracts rather than what is within the gds.

    -Bob


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