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Message started by sear on Feb 13^th, 2009, 2:57pm

Title: Assura RCX Problem
Post by sear on Feb 13^th, 2009, 2:57pm

Dear All,

I got DRC and LVS clean. But when I do Assura->RCX, I got this error:

@(#)$CDS: assura version av3.1:Production:dfII5.0.0 07/07/2004 18:12 (pts5) $
sub-version 3.1.2_USR1, integ signature 2004-03-29-2347dk

run on mspic03.utdallas.edu from /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/3.12_ic5.0/tools.sun4v/assura/bin/32bit/assura on Tue Feb 10 14:26:42 2009

Loading tech rule set file : /home/cad/mspic/hkit/assura/h35b4/h35b4d3/techRuleSets
Checking out license for Assura_RCX 3.10

Starting /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/current/tools/assura/bin/rcxToDfII /net/core/export/home/ee/002/s/sxg041200/hams35/ASSURA_LVS/test/rcx.test.rsf -t -cdslib /net/core/export/home/ee/002/s/sxg041200/hams35/cds.lib
*WARNING* envGetVal: Could not find variable 'dbStatCacheOn'
in tool[.partition] 'cdba'.

@(#)$CDS: rcxToDfII.exe version av3.1:Production:dfII5.0.0 07/07/2004 18:17 (pts5) $
sub-version 3.1.2_USR1, integ signature 2004-03-29-2347dk

run on mspic03.utdallas.edu from /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/3.12_ic5.0/tools.sun4v/assura/bin/32bit/rcxToDfII.exe on Tue Feb 10 14:26:45 2009

Finished /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/current/tools/assura/bin/rcxToDfII

Starting /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/current/tools/assura/bin/avRCXxref /net/core/export/home/ee/002/s/sxg041200/hams35/ASSURA_LVS/test/rcx.test.rsf
@(#)$CDS: avRCXxref version av3.1:Production:dfII5.0.0 07/07/2004 18:13 (pts5) $
sub-version 3.1.2_USR1, integ signature 2004-03-29-2347dk
run on mspic03.utdallas.edu at Tue Feb 10 14:26:47 2009
Reading rsf
Processing test

Finished /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/current/tools/assura/bin/avRCXxref
Constructing the RCX run script
*WARNING* at "RCXspice": Over-riding -extract_mos_diffusion_res option with -extract_mos_diffusion_high '0'.

*** ASSURA capgen VERSION 3.1.2_USR1 Solaris 5.7 - (06/30/2004-17:32) ***

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*WARNING* at "capgen": Unknown option '-res_blocking'

*INFO* at "capgen": capgen [-add_via_effect proclayer1,proclayer2] [-all_sw3d]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-auto_reorder_off] [-blocking devlayer[:grow_amt],proclayer1,...]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-C] [-Csw3d] [-c cfile] [-canonical_res_caps] [-cap_correction]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-cap_ground_layer lvs_layer] [-cap_unit value] [-cdl] [-corner_off]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-D] [-danglingR_proper] [-dspf_empty_box] [-dsub layer1[,layer2...] [-exclude_gate_res] [-exclude_gate_res_by_device exclude_list]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-high] [-length_units microns | meters] [-lexclude exclude_list]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-low_keys] [-lsf number] [-lvs lvsfile] [-M model_name] [-mos_diff_ap_nw]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-newp] [-nice number] [-no_cap_correction] [-no_vertical_cap layer_a,layer_b] [-nofill lvslayer,proclayer[,proclayer,...]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-no_vertical_cap_proper layer_a,layer_b] [-nrd_grow value] [-nrd_grow_by_device value dev1[,dev2,...] [-np number]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-p poly,gate[:layer1][+layer2][...],diffusion]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-P machine_file_name] [-p2lvs p2lvsfile] [-pipe_advgen pipe_command]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-pipe_spice2db pipe_command] [-rcxfs] [-restart] [-richardson_off]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-S] [-S_rcxfs_off] [-Ssw3d] [-scale factor] [-scale_mos_ap]
*INFO* at "capgen": [-selected_paths_proper] [-spice_unit microns | meters] [-vmFill]
*INFO* at "capgen": [processfile] outdir
quitting.
Forking: /home/cad/cadence_new/assura/current/tools/assura/bin/32bit/capgen -techdir /home/cad/mspic/hkit/assura/h35b4/h35b4/RCX-typical -lvs /net/core/export/home/ee/002/s/sxg041200/hams35/ASSURA_LVS/test/test.xcn -p2lvs /home/cad/mspic/hkit/assura/h35b4/h35b4/RCX-typical/p2lvsfile -length_units meters -cap_unit 1.0 -selected_paths_proper -p poly1,capgen_gate,diffusion -no_cap_correction -cap_ground_layer net_psub -dsub net_pwell,net_nwell,net_psub -lexclude poly2,poly1 -blocking cblock_met3_poly1,met3,met2,met1,poly2,poly1 -blocking cblock_met3_psub,met3,met2,met1,poly2,poly1,diffusion,fox -blocking cblock_met1_poly1,met1,poly1 -blocking cblock_poly2_poly1,poly2,poly1 -res_blocking rblock_poly1,net_poly1 -res_blocking rblock_poly2,net_poly2 -res_blocking rblock_met1,net_met1 -res_blocking rblock_met2,net_met2 -res_blocking rblock_met3,net_met3 -res_blocking rblock_met4,net_met4 -sw3d /net/core/export/home/ee/002/s/sxg041200/hams35/ASSURA_LVS/test/test
*WARNING* Bad return status from RCX script generator. 0x100

Any idea about this?

Thank a lot.

Title: Re: Assura RCX Problem
Post by Andrew Beckett on Feb 13^th, 2009, 11:10pm

That's a rather old Assura version. My guess is that it's too old for the RCX rules you're using, which are set up to use res blocking - and that probably wasn't supported in that version (too old for me to test, as I don't have such an old version installed).

Regards,

Andrew.

Title: Re: Assura RCX Problem
Post by sear on Feb 16^th, 2009, 8:20am

Many thanks.