[SI-LIST] Re: Hspice core dump

David:

I had the exactly same experience as you do. In fact, I would say the error
message given by HSPICE is often misleading. You can only learn the tricks after
several long and frustrating debugging.

But we don't have much choice, do we? :)

Perry

David Haedge wrote:

> SIers,
>
> I have experienced similar problems in the past with the
> ^M phenomenon in HSPICE.  On occasion, HSPICE would
> just stay in a perpetual funk.  No error messages, no output,
> no notification of progress finding a solution, just complete
> non-response.  I always had to kill the process to get
> HSPICE to exit.  I always traced the problem to a DOS formatted
> model file trying to be read into the main HSPICE deck.
> I had to "dos2unix' every model file being read and now do this
> as a matter of course before running any newly acquired model
> files.  It only takes one ^M to shut everything down.
>
> David Haedge
> Raytheon
>
> "chen, jinhua" wrote:
>
> > Hi, Michael
> >
> > Most of the core dumps I had were caused by the ^M in the
> > end of each line. Did you check the format the encrypted
> > models? If it is in DOS format, you have to change it to
> > UNIX format.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Jinhua
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Baxter [mailto:baxter@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:00 PM
> > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] Hspice core dump
> >
> > Hello to everyone,
> >
> > I've been having a problem recently with Hspice causing
> > a core dump when I run a set of encrypted models (the
> > encryption may or may not be a factor). In the recent
> > past I had a similar problem with another vendor's models
> > but found something simple (like a node name it did not
> > like) that was causing the dump.
> >
> > Has anyone seen a similar problem? Any suggestions on
> > where to look?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Michael
> >
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