Synopsys Hercules problems related to pcells

[MechaniX]

Hi all , forum helped me a lot ,
however i still have a problem this time with Hercules:
I use Cosmos as layout tool with his default demo lib.
When i tryed to check any cell for DRC an error happens

Hercules (R) Hierarchical Design Verification, IA.32 Release B-2008.09.18103 2008/08/21

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Called as: hercules -f MILKYWAY -i CosmosDemo.Lib -p /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample -b nand /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev


Parsing runset "/soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev"


NOTE : /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev:252: SELECT command removed; it has no contribution
NOTE : /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev:253: SELECT command removed; it has no contribution
NOTE : Optimization removed 2 unneeded commands
NOTE : /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev:119: BOOLEAN command replaced with COPY
NOTE : Optimization replaced 1 commands with COPY commands
Enable Multiple Hierarchy
Mon Mar  2 18:23:14 2009
EV_Engine (R) Hierarchical Design Rule Checker, IA.32 Release B-2008.09.18117 2008/08/28

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Running Single-Threaded code

Runset file ......................  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/FTK/runsets/drc.ev
Current Directory ................  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample
Hostname .........................  localhost.localdomain
Platform type ....................  IA32_L24
MILKYWAY input library path ......  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/
MILKYWAY input file name .........  CosmosDemo.Lib
MILKYWAY block name ..............  nand
LTL output library path ..........  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/
LTL output library name ..........  CosmosDemo.Lib
LTL output_block name ............  EV_OUTPUT
Run details ......................  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/run_details
Group file directory .............  /soft/synopsys/cosmos/demo/Sample/run_details/group
Retain group files ...............  smart
Check reference structures .......  yes


Starting a non page replacement mode Milkyway db session... 

DATATYPE_OFFSET=FALSE. There will be no datatype difference
between FRAM and CEL views.
Input Library Format:  127 char cellnames
Output Library Format:  No output library
Rendering 'pmos' Programmable cell
illegal attribute Name (dataType) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (layer) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (routeType) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (netId) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (flags) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (bbox) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (points) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (numberOfPoint) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (points) for type [155]
illegal attribute Name (numberOfPoint) for type [155]
Tcl Error: Design rule 2 minEnclosure 3 not found
WARNING : failed to render pcell object 'pmos'
Rendering 'pmos' Programmable cell
Tcl Error: Design rule 2 minEnclosure 3 not found
WARNING : failed to render pcell object 'pmos'
Rendering 'nmos' Programmable cell
Tcl Error: Design rule 2 minEnclosure 3 not found
WARNING : failed to render pcell object 'nmos'
Rendering 'nmos' Programmable cell
Tcl Error: Design rule 2 minEnclosure 3 not found
WARNING : failed to render pcell object 'nmos'
Fatal error #708: Cannot open structure file "_nmos_db0137c0" for reading.  Aborting.
Exit hercules!
Hercules Run: Time=  0:00:05 User=0.78 System=0.19
Hercules is done.

Any ideas?

 

[zdog]

synopsys hercules manual

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Looks like it's having a problem with your pcells. Is it possible they are in a reference library and the paths to those libraries are set incorrectly in the database? Are the paths set directly in the database? Or are they in a reference control file? Hercules may be looking in the database for the references, but if they're in a control file, it may not see them. Maybe if you moved the data from somewhere and the reflib paths are relative and not absolute, it can't find them now....not sure.

 

[MechaniX]

hercules synopsys

Thank for your quick response.
Hm yeah , there is some problem with pcells , but I just unpacked archives (cosmos and hercules) , then I installed them as usuall
and then started to use comos default cosmos.demo lib.
I dont think that there is some problems with paths....

What do you think about?