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cdb to oa conversion

Charanraj Mohan
Charanraj Mohan over 9 years ago

Hey,

 I have a library in Cadence 5 and I need to convert it to Cadence 6. For this I do the following in the Command window (Orange window environment) in steps. Consider that my library is 'eva' is original in Cadence 5, HITKIT 3.7 AMS35 and I want to convert this library to Cadence 6 HITKIT 4.10 library.

Steps followed-

1. Create a temporary directory

mkdir $HOME/tmp

cd $HOME/tmp

2. Create cdb and oa directories and change the directory to cdb

mkdir cdb

mkdir oa

cd cdb

3. Create cds.lib file with the following content inside

DEFINE eva /directory_of_eva

4. Put/Copy this file into the cdb directory.

5. Change the directory to oa

cd ../oa

6. Execute cdb2oa to convert the library to oa database

cdb2oa -lib eva -cdslibpath ../cdb

(I assume the converted library file to be in the directory oa)

I get the following error:

ERROR   (CDBOA-500): Cannot translate CDB design library <path>/<name> to        
                     OpenAccess because CDB technology library <name> referenced
                     by the CDB design library is not available in the          
                     OpenAccess format. Before translating the CDB design       
                     library, ensure that all the referenced CDB technology     
                     libraries are available in OpenAccess and defined in       
                     'cds.lib'.
                     
                      Generated once. The translator stopped because the CDBA   
                     library references an attached technology library that does
                     not exist in OpenAccess.
                      Check the source library files and correct the library    
                     attachments as required. Ensure that the cds.lib file is   
                     present in the current directory and any technology library
                     that is referenced by the current library is defined in the
                     cds.lib file and is available in OpenAccess at the time it
                     is referenced. If the design library is referencing itself
                     as an attached technology library, ensure that there is an
                     appropriate tech.db technology file present in the         
                     OpenAccess library directory.

I have done the normal procedure for cdb to oa conversion. Does this imply that I have to also have a cds.lib file in the oa folder with all the design libraries ??

Thanks in advance.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 9 years ago

    I have no idea what problem you're describing above. 

    CDB to OA Conversion is something that has had many fixes over the years - it was very important to make it pretty robust. It's been used a huge number of times since we first introduced OA versions of the tools about 12 years or so ago. However, it does require valid data and setup to use it properly.

    If there are bugs, you need to report them with clear information as to what went wrong. I don't get that from above because you didn't really explain the specifics - so please go to customer support.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 9 years ago

    I have no idea what problem you're describing above. 

    CDB to OA Conversion is something that has had many fixes over the years - it was very important to make it pretty robust. It's been used a huge number of times since we first introduced OA versions of the tools about 12 years or so ago. However, it does require valid data and setup to use it properly.

    If there are bugs, you need to report them with clear information as to what went wrong. I don't get that from above because you didn't really explain the specifics - so please go to customer support.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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