Running VPCD from command line?

Tarek,

Parts of the VPCD environment are in SKILL context files, so it's more than just being able to run from the command line.

In fact VPCD is also no longer in the MMSIM72 stream (VPCD was End-of-lifed in 2008).

So realistically you should use a version of both IC and MMSIM where it is available (i.e. IC613 and MMSIM71).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

So if I use IC613 with setenv DD_USE_LIBDEFS NO, I shouldn't have any problems with the libraries being updated when I go back to using IC614? BTW has MMSIM72 been released?

Thanks,

Tarek

Hi Tarek,

That's right. In fact you shouldn't have a problem anyway, because it always writes cds.lib - it was just a matter of whether lib.defs was being created by some other process or manually. But I'd probably go for DD_USE_LIBDEFS set to NO anyway.

MMSIM72 is released and is on downloads.cadence.com (it was released over the last weekend).

Regards,

Andrew.

For anyone who's interested, it looks like inductors generated by VPCD can't be used with MMSIM72 (pehaps with some environment tweaking it could).

\o VPCD ERROR: Failed to load context file for VPCDLikely Cause: The current version of MMSIM does not support VPCDWARNING: The VPCD-synthesized layout structures will not bedrawn correctly without this context file.Loading schematic.cxt 

Opening a PCD layout yields "pcellEvalFailed", I didn't try the layout_flat view though.

\e <<< Stack Trace >>>
\e strcat(getShellEnvVar("CDS_VPCD_HOME") "/etc/context/VPCM.cxt")
\e loadContext(strcat(getShellEnvVar("CDS_VPCD_HOME") "/etc/context/VPCM.cxt"))
\e ...
\e *Error* eval: undefined function - _pmms_loadModelFile
\e <<< Stack Trace >>>
\e _pmms_loadModelFile()
\e loadi("/blah/blah/blah/libInit.il")
\e ...
\w *WARNING* (DB-270001): Pcell evaluation for vpcm/PCM_sym_oct/layout has the following error(s):
\w *WARNING* (DB-270002): ("eval" 0 t nil ("*Error* eval: undefined function" _pmms_sym_Wrapper))
\w *WARNING* (DB-270003): Error kept in "errorDesc" property of the label "pcellEvalFailed" on layer/purpose "marker/error" in the submaster.
\w *WARNING* (DB-270001): Pcell evaluation for vpcm/PCM_shld_oct/layout has the following error(s):
\w *WARNING* (DB-270002): ("eval" 0 t nil ("*Error* eval: undefined function" _pmms_shld_oct_Wrapper))
\w *WARNING* (DB-270003): Error kept in "errorDesc" property of the label "pcellEvalFailed" on layer/purpose "marker/error" in the submaster.

I suppose I could set CDS_VPCD_HOME to <MMSIM71_HOME>/tools/vpcd, but mixing MMSIM71 and MMSIM72 doesn't seem like a good idea.

Hi tkhan,

VPCD is not supported in MMSIM7.2 .  It was EoS (end of sale) a year ago.  MMSIM7.1 is the last version it's supported in. 

It is also not supported in IC6.1.4.

best regards,

Tawna Wilsey

Hi,

I was aware of VPCD being EOL since last year, looks like this is the final nail in the coffin. I'm going to try swapping the layout and layout_flat views, if that doesn't work I'll do as Andrew suggested.

Thanks,

Tarek