Forum Post: RE: Moving Allegro and CIS Settings to New Version Installation
Yes, just make sure that the Computer Environment Variable for HOME is set to the location (Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - Environment Variables), then copy the cdssetup and pcbenv...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to extract Pcell proprieties from a CV
[update] the solution is to use the cdfGetInstCDF(instance_db) function.
View ArticleForum Post: Switch to Variant View Mode with Tcl
I need PDF schematics for different assembly variants. I want to do this with a Tcl function so I can create all PDFs with a single function call. The only thing that is missing is switching to Variant...
View ArticleForum Post: When to Use TopMetal2
Hi, I am using a new process that contains both TopMetal1 and TopMetal2. Unfortunately documentation is not very useful on when to use either one. Wondered if anyone had any advice on the following: 1....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: how to write a SKILL code for PCELL powergrid
Thanks Andrew and Lawrence. adding V1==t || V1=="TRUE" works great. Rudy
View ArticleForum Post: RE: When to Use TopMetal2
Hi ChrisDG, You didn't mention 1) what you are trying to do. Are you modeling transmission lines? 2) what tool you are using. Layout? Transmissionline library? mtline? 3) and the version of that tool....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
Hi, I recommend that you file a Case for this on http://support.cadence.com . The Support AE on-call can assist quickly. To find out the proper productID, type: checkSysConf -r It will return something...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: When to Use TopMetal2
In addition to the things that Tawna mentioned, nobody is going to help you unless they know the technology/process that you're using - we have no idea what TopMetal1 or TopMetal2 mean; maybe somebody...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
Thanks for the fast reply. I run those lines whatever was suggested to do. For the first line, it had returned with the command IC6.1.6. After the execution of 2nd line, log file also created and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
So, what happens if you start Virtuoso now? If checkSysConf passes, then you should be good to go. If you get that message again, then please contact Customer Support to assist you in troubleshooting...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: When to Use TopMetal2
Thanks Tawna and Andrew for the replies. I was mostly after generic advice/best practices/things_to_avoid for analog designs up to 10GHz if anyone has experience of routing/bonding/grounding in the top...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
Please post here the output of these 5 UNIX commands: cat /etc/redhat-release uname -rsn /lib/libc.so.6 ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2 rpm -q -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Thanks, Andrew.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: When to Use TopMetal2
I still don't see how anyone can help you without knowing which specific technology you're using. "BiCmos Process" doesn't cut it. Unless somebody is familiar with the specifics of the process you're...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Library padstack report
Hello Dave, is it possible to receive from you this script compiled ok 64bit machine ? Or source code of this script (I know that it is improper to ask for that but ...) Thanks in advance
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
It's not that i am not able to invoke the tool but it's almost taking 15 to 20 minutes to invoke along with the warning that i mentioned in the first post. BTW, i tried to get the outputs of the above...
View ArticleForum Post: Vendor model export - Parts Editor error
Hi all, Just joined the community. I keep receiving the following error when I attempt to export vendor models to Capture using the PSpice Model Editor: "Error (S2C3471) Base Part library does not...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
Hey, i got it... It's because of missing package called "glibc-2.12-1.192.el6.i686". I installed it and its working fine. Thank you very much to both Andrew and Tawna for guiding me.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Warning message about OS compatibility while invoking virtuoso
Good! Unfortunately this is precisely the kind of thing that checkSysConf ought to check, but currently it doesn't. It was recently enhanced to allow checking of the presence of both 32-bit and 64-bit...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Noise analysis on dynamic comparator
Hello Andrew, very nice tutorial, many thanks for the new link. I tried to apply a pss/pnoise Analysis in order to find out the noise of my Clocked Comparator following the instructions given at page...
View ArticleForum Post: Modifying a string passed through pPar()
I've got a couple of s-parameter files that I want to make symbols for so I can easily use them in my schematics. For that, I made a symbol (let's call it sparblock), and a schematic view that contains...
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