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Message started by RF2RTLitsAllGood on Oct 30^th, 2010, 4:41am

Title: ADE netlist and run: can't find hdl.var
Post by RF2RTLitsAllGood on Oct 30^th, 2010, 4:41am

To anyone who can help,

I am trying to follow the Cadence tutorial: AMS in Virtuoso.
I am using IC611 and IUS82.
When I try running the simulation the simulator quits. When I view the NCVLOG log error it complains about not finding the hdl.var required for setting up the verilog simulator. I have place an hdl.var file in the directory I invoked virtuoso from and in my home directory (both included in the setup.loc file) I have also defined the path for this file in CIW's ams compiler options. This path is then defined in the ams.env file in the working directory. I have found that further down in my working directory, where the spectre simulation files are located, there is another ams.env file which has information relevant to the simulation I am trying to run. I have tried adding the hdl.var path to this ams.env file. But when I run the simulator this file is recreated, thus over writing my changes.

Does anyone know where I can specify the path to hdl.var in ADE to run AMS simulations with spectre? Or does anyone know where I can put the hdl.var file so the tools can find it?

If you need anymore information please let me know.

Thank you,

Brian
RF2RTLitsAllGood

Title: Re: ADE netlist and run: can't find hdl.var
Post by jerome_ams on Nov 8^th, 2010, 7:45am

Hi,

U could try to define your hdl.var from the ADE GUI itself, under Simulation-> Options -> Compiler -> hdl.var

Hope it helps,
jerome

Title: Re: ADE netlist and run: can't find hdl.var
Post by RF2RTLitsAllGood on Nov 14^th, 2010, 4:45am

Thank you that helped.