Cadence virtuoso IC615 can not extract hspice netlist

[tompham]

Hi
I have problem creating hspice netlist from Cadence ADE virtuoso 615. When I open ADE window --->simualtion-->Netlist--->Create. I can not click on any subtree under Netlist (Create, Display, Recreate) . If anyone has this problem before please show me how to solve it. I install cadence on ubuntu 12.04 and it works well until suddently crash today. I tried to install cadence again but still same problem

Thanks a lot

 

[Dominik Przyborowski]

Ubuntu is one of the worst linux distribution, but ok.
Can You run HSpice from console? Have You proper paths in environment settings?

 

[tompham]

Hi Dominik Przyborowski
Thanks for reply my message. I think I have right paths in evironment setting because I can work before virtuoso crash. I try another way to create a hspice netlist using CDL export , the netlist is ok but need to modified and when i use this netlist to run simulation the output waveform show no node except vdd! and gnd!. Im going to debug this issue.
Do you think beside RedHat , any others free linux good for EDA software?

Thanks

 

[Dominik Przyborowski]

Check on new directory for virtuoso or with another simulator if th problem exists.

I'm using debian for years and I never had any problem with cadence software especcialy since multiarch option is available. But other old good distributions like slack or gentoo should be also not bad.

 

[tompham]

Hi Dominik Przyborowski
Today , I install cadence ic615 and mmsim131 to Scientific Linux. I use SL a few months and it is stable. The process to install cadence on this OS is much easier than on ubuntu because I do not need to install many missing library. I also finish installing calibre and some synopsys software on it. I wish do not get suffer of OS crashing like ubuntu