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Message started by jaylin79 on Apr 20^th, 2006, 11:55pm

Title: how to solve this LVS error?
Post by jaylin79 on Apr 20^th, 2006, 11:55pm

Dear Guys,

I am using DRACULA to run LVS, when I input the command file by "/g lvs.rul', the terminal give me many error message as following:

** ERROR : LAYER ISOL HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
" : ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "PPBNISO
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
NOT PPLUB ISOL PPBNISO
** ERROR : LAYER ISOL HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
** ERROR : LAYER PPLUB HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
" : ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "ISONPPB
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
NOT ISOL PPLUB ISONPPB
** ERROR : LAYER EPI HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
": ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "EPIPPW
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
SELECT EPI ENC PPW EPIPPW
"LLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "BNE
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
NOT B E BNE
"LLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "ENB
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
NOT E B ENB
"LEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "BC
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
AND B C BC
"LEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "EC
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
AND E C EC
** ERROR : LAYER BC HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
"ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "BEBC
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:
SELECT B ENC BC BEBC
** ERROR : LAYER EC HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED YET
"ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN LAYER NAME: "EEEC
THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTED ABOVE IS FOR THE FOLLOWING CARD:

It seems that there are many illegal characters in the command file, so the layer names can not be recognized, actually all the layer which it claim not to be defined is exactly writed at the connect-layer.

Best Regards
Jay

Title: Re: how to solve this LVS error?
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jul 24^th, 2006, 2:02pm

Perhaps there are DOS end-of-line characters ^M appearing in the file (wild guess)? Try dos2unix if on a platform with such a command, or simply delete them using vi:

:g/^V^M/s///

^V means control-V, ^M means control-M

Regards,

Andrew.