Hi,
I have a circuit containing a device mimcap that cause a failure in LVS. Specificly the netlisting stage.
I have tried my previous circuit without any mimcap. The DIVA LVS works fine with the exact same setting.
One strange thing is that all of my peers work fine with this problmatic circuit (the mimcap one). Even I copy their .cshrc , cds.lib .cdsenv and .cdsinit, I still failed to pass the LVS for the mimcap one.
I have done the printenv showing CDS_Netlisting Mode=Analog is set.
Another strange thing is that I fail to do a export=>CDL to get a schematic view netlisted in cmosp18um. By following the same flow I can do it in tsmc65nm and 90nm. All of my peers who also fail to do the CDL netlist in cmosp18um can pass the LVS (they have no problem netlisting mimcap) for the circuit containing mimcap device.
Is there anybody can answer this question.
Attached si.log
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Running simulation in directory: "/users/labnet2/fs5/tl4528/cadencep18/LVS".
Begin netlist: Jun 17 20:40:00 2014
view name list= ("lvs" "extracted" "schematic" "gate_sch" "cmos_sch")
stop name list= ("lvs")
library name= "workshop"
cell name= "PAMPwithInt"
view name= "capResMulExtracted"
globals lib= "basic"
Running Artist Flat Netlisting ...
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance R1 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance R0 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance R3 in cellView (tiedown schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance C2 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance C1 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance C0 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance L0 in cellView (mimcap schematic) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'cmosp18'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +104 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +103 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +102 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +101 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +100 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +99 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +98 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +97 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +96 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +95 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +94 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +93 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +92 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +91 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +90 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +89 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +88 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
global error:
Cannot find switch master cell for instance +87 in cellView (PAMPwithInt capResMulExtracted) from viewlist 'lvs extracted schematic gate_sch cmos_sch ' in library 'workshop'.
Maximum number of errors exceeded. Abort netlisting.
*WARNING* invalid cell view -- 0(unknown)
*Error* simNetlistWithArgs: abort netlist
si: Netlist did not complete successfully.
End netlist: Jun 17 20:40:01 2014
Comparison program did not complete.
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Thanks,
Alex