Forum Post: RE: Calibre / PEX / During Calibre view creation / *Error* close:...
Thanks! It turned out that parts of the PEX code we got from the foundry had inconsistent port names (i.e., some devices in the code had 'GND' ports while the other devices had 'VSS' ports). Cheers,...
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Hi, My cadence crashed, and I had to restart and remove the lock files. Post the crash, a cell became corrupted, which I can no longer access. When I try to access the cell, I get the following error:...
View ArticleForum Post: how to debug the misbehaving scheduling of sequential logic
HI In our design, I see some weird behavior on the waveform. The logic is simplified as following always_ff @(posedge clk) begin A <= B; end It is supposed to be a flop. However, the A changes at...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: dbOpenCellViewByType: Corrupted database encountered:
Hi Sunwoo It seems that you are using quite an outdated version of Virtuoso (IC618-ISR6). Would you please try oaScan from the latest version (IC618-ISR15)? If your company uses a file server, you can...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: problem in import spice
Hi Machha When spiceIn is unable to find a suitable user-defined mapping for a device, it tries searching for generic names such as "mos", "res", etc. You had most likely not included the appropriate...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatic load user-defined calculator functions
Dear Andrew, As usual, I thank you for your added insight and directions! I actually do use the fx button to add custom functions to the Calculator. I only referenced the prior article as I was not...
View ArticleForum Post: Cannot copy a part from an existing Library to my new Tutorial...
I've dowloaded the trial version of OrCad and following the instrctions on video 2. Add Libraries and Parts. However, as instructed, I'm unable to copy from the capsym.olb library, the parts GND_POWER...
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Hi, I finally been able to copy de part. I'm use off right-clicing to see in the context menu the option to copy but was not available and that did confus me. Nevertheless, the CTRL+C to copy work just...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: dbOpenCellViewByType: Corrupted database encountered:
Hi Sunwoo, There have been a couple of reports of this message, and sometimes it has been a true data loss (although that is extremely rare (and by extremely rare, I mean extremely rare - I've hardly...
View ArticleForum Post: number of noise/freq pairs in pss/pnoise simulation
Hello, I am using Virtuoso 6.1.7, spectre version 18.10.169. I am simulating a 32kHz relaxation oscillator with pss/pnoise to get phase noise/jitter. I want to see how phase noise/jitter are affected...
View ArticleForum Post: Pspice model simulation in ADE XL
Hi everyone, I am trying to simulate a system in which one sub-circuit is Spectre model and another sub-circuit of Memrisistor is Pspice model. I have created a config file and used the simulator AMS...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Analog Layout Design
Can you please tell me how did you solve the errors? attaching my inverter design too.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: number of noise/freq pairs in pss/pnoise simulation
Dear laoudi , [quote userid="381934" url="~/cadence_technology_forums/f/mixed-signal-design/47326/number-of-noise-freq-pairs-in-pss-pnoise-simulation"] Can I simply do that by adding noise/freq pairs...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: number of noise/freq pairs in pss/pnoise simulation
Hi Shawn, Thanks for your reply. I still have some questions. I have read the article in this link: what are the limitations?It Is not clear to me from this article that noise/freq pairs are not taken...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Pspice model simulation in ADE XL
Hi Xiaocheng, Without seeing how you've set up this component, can't really comment. Something is a bit odd, because area appears to be being netlisted as a string, so it suggests that you haven't set...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatic load user-defined calculator functions
Hi Shawn, Andrew, Thank you for your answers. Using the fx button works and keeps the function on the calculator for all the cadence sessions in the same working directory. But I'm looking for a...
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First of all, it's important to understand that content marketing can serve as a complementary strategy to any other digital strategy. Its virtues are numerous since it helps your SEO on the web by...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatic load user-defined calculator functions
Hi Jorge, It's not surprising that the calRegisterSpecialFunction doesn't add the UI part - there's a completely different set of functions to add the UI when using the "cal" function to do this, and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatic load user-defined calculator functions
This blog might be useful too (although it doesn't cover the loading of central files): Virtuosity: Sharing Custom SKILL Calculator Functions Andrew
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Pspice model simulation in ADE XL
Hello Andrew, thank you very much for your help. By following your suggestion, I have set the parseAsNumber=yes and parseAsCEL=yes in the CDF for my component. Now in the ADE L window all variables of...
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