[Moved]: ERROR (ADE-3036) in cadence virtuoso IC6.15

[brayn64]

Hi,

I installed IC 6.15 and MMSIM 12.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 using the VirtualBox in 32 bit mode. When I run virtuoso, no error or warning in the cds.log file.
But when i run simulation with spectre (of a simple circuit) in ADE, I get this ERROR message in CIW, and the outputs are not plotted:
ERROR (ADE-3036): Errors encountered during simulation. The simulator run log has not been generated.Possible cause could be an invalid command line option for the version of the simulator
you are running. Choose Setup->Environment and verify that the command line options specified in the userCmdLineOption field are supported for the simulator. Alternatively, run the simulator standalone using the runSimulation file in the netlist
directory to know the exact cause of the error.

Please can you help me to solve tihs problem. I would really appreciate it.

 

[BigBoss]

Most probably there is a unknown definition in .cdsenv file and this disturbs the simulator.If you run "runSimulation" script standalone in xterm, that will give you related error message then correct this bad defined variable in .cdsenv. "runSimulation" script is always found under ./simulation directory.

 

[brayn64]

Thanks BigBoss for your help:-D
I run "runSimulation" script in the netlist directory (./runSimulation), the result in xterm is:

cds_root: cds_root: cannot execute [Erreur de format pour exec()]
FATAL: Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.

Please, what's the problem?

 

[Dominik Przyborowski]

cds_root: cds_root: cannot execute [Erreur de format pour exec()]
FATAL: Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.

It is look like your environment is not set properly.

 

[BigBoss]

Thanks BigBoss for your help:-D
I run "runSimulation" script in the netlist directory (./runSimulation), the result in xterm is:

cds_root: cds_root: cannot execute [Erreur de format pour exec()]
FATAL: Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.

Please, what's the problem?

You should check "runSimulation" script under this path

<path of simulation directory>/<project name>/spectre/schematic/netlist

and then run it as:

./runSimulation

 

[kenambo]

please use set env option .

you can find related documents in your installation directory

 

[brayn64]

Thanks for your help.

May be there is errors in may installation. I installed cadence virtuoso IC6.15 Base, only, with mmsim in 32 bits machine? Do I must installed cadence virtuoso IC6.15 Hotfix, also? And what's the difference between them, please?

And I run 'runSimulation' script in the Simulation directory; /root/simulation/first/spectre/schematic/netlist. the result is:

cds_root: cds_root: cannot execute [Erreur de format pour exec()]
FATAL: Unable to find the Cadence software in your $PATH.

In my .bashrc file, I add the; 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' (after reading the doc in my cadence_install_path), but the result is the same. My .bashrc file indicates:

]# virtuoso stuff
virtuoso () {
alias lmli='/home/bryan/cadencetools/virtuoso/tools/bin/lmgrd -c /home/bryan/cadencetools/virtuoso/share/license/license.dat'
export OA_HOME=/home/bryan/cadencetools/virtuoso/oa_v22.41.029
export CDS_ROOT=/home/bryan/cadencetools/virtuoso
export CDS_INSTALL_PATH=$CDS_ROOT/tools/dfII
export MMSIM_ROOT=/home/bryan/cadencetools/mmsim
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$CDS_ROOT/tools/lib:$CDS_INSTALL_PATH/lib
export LM_LICENSE_FILE=$CDS_ROOT/share/license/license.dat:/home/bryan/cadencetools/mmsim/share/license/license.dat
export CDS_Netlisting_Mode=Analog
export PATH=$PATH:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/bin:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/spectre/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/dfII/bin
export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/bin/netscape
}

We can see that the spectre_path is defiened only in MMSIM_path and not in Virtuoso_path? May this is the original of the problem?

 

[kenambo]

Hi,
instead of this,
export PATH=$PATH:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/bin:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/spectre/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/dfII/bin

Try adding this,
export PATH=$PATH:$MMSIM_ROOT/bin:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/bin:$MMSIM_ROOT/tools/dfII/bin:$MMSIM_ROOT/share/bin:$CDS_ROOT/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/dfII/bin:$CDS_ROOT/share/bin
and let me know the result

 

[brayn64]

thanks kenambo:sad,
I tried your procedure. But I get the same result, it doesn't work.
I think that the problem is in my installation. I will reinstall Cadence in another unix machine.