Capturing glitches in Xcelium
Hello, So I am seeing this weird behavior in my simulation where a register captures a value but nothing in the input logic cone has changed. For e.g., a <= (b & c) | (!d) | (~e &f) where a...
View ArticleRE: Capturing glitches in Xcelium
You can enable event recording using: xmsim> database -open waves.shm -event In the waveform window, you will see small yellow circles where multiple events occur within a single time slice. Use the...
View Article3rd Tensilica Day in Hanover: Extending our Senses
Two events in a row are a coincidence, three events are a series. With these words Professor Holger Blume has opened the 3 rd Tensilica Day at IMS Institute in Hannover and greeted more than 80...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Self-Paced Learning through Training Bytes
Martin Luther King Jr. said: “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” With schedules that are bursting at the seams, do you wish you could somehow squeeze in time to learn...
View ArticleRE: Synthesis Area plus power estimate concatenation
Hi GioFz, Hmm....Adding the following to your synthesis script will help you read the tool log file as a complete synthesis run without getting too lost in the tool log file : set_attribute...
View ArticleRE: "Attribute "CDS_DI_CONTROL_MASK" is not defined." Allegro HDL crashes
According to the Cadence Support site, this is an issue when different early, pre hotfix 11, versions of 17.2 are mixed and was fixed in 17.2 hotfix 11, current version is 17.2 hotfix 34. Getting both...
View ArticleRE: Reduce blank page borders in exported PDF from OrCAD Capture
If this is a concern, you need to get this reported to Cadence Support, either directly or through your Cadence Channel Partner since, as far as I can tell, there is no control over this in the export...
View ArticleRE: Non-editable entities
You would probably be better to report this in the appropriate forum since you haven't provided any details of which tool you are using. A guess at PCB Editor would be that what you are trying to...
View ArticleRE: Cadence Linux Support Questions
Unfortunately, this seems to fall into the category of "Linux admins just know". For the SPB tools, since you have a Windows machine, you will need to replicate the "CDS" environment variables from...
View ArticleRE: Stacked Vias
HI Andrew, There is any skill code for via to via conversion i.e;m2_m1c to m3_m2c.So please let me know is there any solution for it and we are using virtuoso 6.1.6-64bit version. Thanks in advance,...
View ArticleRE: Stacked Vias
Clearly you didn't read the forum guidelines as you posted in the middle of an 8 year old thread with a question that was only tangentially related to the original question. That said, I'll forgive you...
View ArticleRE: "Attribute "CDS_DI_CONTROL_MASK" is not defined." Allegro HDL crashes
Thank you very much, it worked. I installed the latest hotfix and I can now open the project again.
View ArticleRE: Custom "window"-ed form, assign "Enter" for specific callback.
Hi Andrew, " Enter" definition works only if numpad Enter key is used. It does not work with main Enter key for me either. Sadly, I'm not able to mimic the event when main "Enter" key is pressed in...
View ArticleZombies
What is a zombie? It depends on who you ask. Venture capitalists talk about zombies, and so do operating system programmers. Not to mention people who watch zombie movies. And in a surprise bit of news...
View ArticleRE: Synthesis Area plus power estimate concatenation
Thank you very much for the reply, I will work on the information you gave me. However to clarify your confusion: [quote userid="384090"...
View ArticleStatistical Contribution or criticality of each device
Hello, Suppose we are running a Monte Carlo simulation & we are interested to find which MOSFET device is critical, is it possible to find out every MOSFET's contribution to criticality of...
View ArticleHow to properly handle wave family in custom calculator function
Hi, I needed a function that will resample waveform using points from another waveform. So I wrote function below: ;Function to resample sourceWave by points from pointsWave ;sourceWave waveform to be...
View ArticlePhysConfig: force to descend
Hi, How can I set an instance to "force to descend" in skill. so during the "Gen from source", it will generate the sub layout of that instance. Thanks
View ArticleFeature Request: New 3D Engine PCB 17.2
Hello, this is my first post to this Forum. hopefully it is okay? I use the new new 3D Engine with the Cutting function and it is very importend to add any mirror function for the cutting. as Sample if...
View ArticleRE: Synthesis Area plus power estimate concatenation
Hi GioFz, I am wondering if you have access to the documentation. No being impolite - just asking :-) You can locate the PDF file in the installation directory of the tool or use the cdnshelp command...
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