When I am trying to run a Monte Carlo simulation the following error always occur:

"Fatal error found by spectre during Monte Carlo analysis 'mc1'.
   cannot communicate with artil process."

The only reference of this 'artil process' i've manage to found is in the spectre reference manual:

"For each iteration of each Monte Carlo child analyses, Spectre (through Artil) will write a line to this ASCII file which contains scalar data..."

By skipping the nominal run i can 'bypass' this error and make a full run although since the problem still exist no scalar data is available after the analysis, only the process data.

Does anyone know what could cause this problem or how i can solve it?

Thanks
// Tim

The log file is always empty after the runs so that won't tell me much. We are using the version 5.0.33.500.3.24 so the problem might be solved by the new version, unfortunately our group doesnt have access to the support (and hence sourcelink?) so I could not investigate the solution you are mentioning.

Would it be possible to create a one-time process and mismatch information to use in normal transient simulations? It is the mismatch information that i'm mostly interested in so a corner analysis wont help me that much (and dcmatch is only for dc...).

Otherwise i might just have to hope that our next version upgrade will solve this problem...

// Tim

After patching to a newer version this problem now went away and we are able to run the monte carlo analysis without any problems.

Thanks for your help Andrew.

//Tim