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Matt Venn

09/16/2021, 5:43 PM
I'm unable to get my 50 cell design to simulate in a reasonable time, so have given up on that and vastly simplified the design. Now I have a new problem, where a vector is missing. I just can't work it out - could someone put me out of my misery and take a look? What am I doing wrong?
in gds, run ngspice simulation.spice, and it will fail with a message about no vector called lock
lock is the output of the design, and is directly connected to a flip flop
I think I've worked out that if a node never changes, then no vector will be created. not sure about that
but the verilog test bench that does the same thing clearly shows the output togggling
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Tim Edwards

09/16/2021, 6:16 PM
@Matt Venn: Your "top.spice" file contains black-box entries for all the standard cells, which means your netlist is effectively empty of any devices. This is probably the result of extracting the netlist from a layout using abstract views of all the standard cells.
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Matt Venn

09/16/2021, 7:08 PM
thanks Tim
I'm still such a newb at the spice stuff
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