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Message started by Mikay on May 22^nd, 2014, 6:00pm

Title: Spectre simulation Errors
Post by Mikay on May 22^nd, 2014, 6:00pm

Currently I have a simulation issue with Cadence Spectre. The circuitry is very simple, it's just a analog biasing network. However, the Spectre fails to run the DC simulation and can't even get the netlist due to several following errors. Did anyone encounter such issue? Thanks.

warm regards,
Mikay

*Error* foreach: second argument must be a list - ""
<<< Stack Trace >>>
(... in /* (nlDbCellView) */ _nlGetParameterTypeTable ...)
(... in /* (nlStopInstance) */ _nlGetParameterTypeTable ...)
(... in /* (nlStopInstance) */ _nlInitializeCache ...)
(... in /* (nlStopInstance) */ nlInitialize ...)
(... in /* (nlIhnl) */ nlCreateInstance ...)
(... in nlNetlistFileInstOutput ...)
apply('nlNetlistFileInstOutput _artAliasArg_)
(... in hnlProcInst ...)
hnlProcInst('(db:0x15d3c82c db:0x15d38c92 0 1 ("sub" "net37" "net026" "net20") ... ))
(... in hnlPrintDevices ...)
hnlPrintDevices()
(... in hnlPrintTopCell ...)
hnlPrintTopCell()
skillEvalString("hnlPrintTopCell()" nil)
(... in hnlDoInstBased ...)
(... in hnlPrintNetlist ...)
(... in hnlRunForkedNetlister ...)
hnlRunForkedNetlister()
skillEvalString("hnlRunForkedNetlister" nil)

Title: Re: Spectre simulation Errors
Post by sheldon on May 23^rd, 2014, 2:35am

Mikay,

This log file is reporting Skill errors, this implies that ADE
has not been able to generate a netlist. Can you display a
netlist? If not, then you need to fix the errors that are causing
netlisting to fail.

Best Regards,

Sheldon

Title: Re: Spectre simulation Errors
Post by Mikay on May 23^rd, 2014, 5:46am

Thanks sheldon, the netlist can't be generated due to the same error. I just don't know how to fix this error and what the error exactly means. Sometimes the netlist can't be generated because the circuis is not "check and save". This time I'm stuck by this error and can't go on further.

warm regards,
-Mikay

sheldon wrote on May 23^rd, 2014, 2:35am: