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Message started by rmukh on Sep 7^th, 2005, 11:18pm

Title: ASSURA crashes
Post by rmukh on Sep 7^th, 2005, 11:18pm

I am running ASSURA 50 extraction on ACE50 platform. My layout is drawn on Virtuoso Layout editor. DRC and LVS runs properly but RCX exits after doing lots of calculations. I have reproduced the relevant portion of the log below. Can anyone help please ?

#==========================================================#
# Run pax16 to generate capfile
#==========================================================#

pax16 -V -scf sip.cmd -filterfile maxnetfile -dC \
cpoly_poly_CPP_floating_poly_capacitor_psub_CAP_1052.cap,poly_field_CAPA_accumulation_capacitor_CAP_1086.cap:warn \
-M_perim_off -c \
/export/students/rmukh/work/analog/cmos9/RCXRunData/5lm/cap_coeff.dat \
-f field:field_cut comp:comp_cut poly:poly_cut cpoly:cpoly_cut \
metal1:metal1_cut metal2:metal2_cut metal3:metal3_cut \
metal4:metal4_cut metal5:metal5_cut gate - \
/export/students/rmukh/work/analog/cmos9/RCXRunData/5lm/paxfile_coeff \
- - NET - tmp_capfile
*WARNING* at "pax16": fatal: -c option is now modified to accept only
*WARNING* at "pax16": shared objects of type <filename>.so. Refer to man
*FATAL* at "pax16": page on how to build a <filename>.so on your platform
*WARNING* Bad return status from RCX run. 0x1

Title: Re: ASSURA crashes
Post by Andrew Beckett on Sep 8^th, 2005, 3:17pm

It sounds as if you're running an old version of Assura. There was a problem where some of the Assura files were not platform independent (due to byte order issues), and running on Linux with cap_coeff.dat generated on Sun would give this message.

According to my searches, it was fixed in Assura 3.0.6 (assura 3.0.X is no longer supported, BTW) - but even then, if the cap_coeff.dat had been generated on Linux, it would need recreating.

You don't give any clues as to the version of Assura being used - so I can't be more specific.

Best Regards,

Andrew.