@User, I am getting below errors(no such vector & dynamic gmin stepping failed) on simulating extracted spice(along with parasitic extraction) file from layout. On extracting same layout without parasitic extraction ,the extracted spice is simulating with no errors. I am not sure what is causing this issue.
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yrrapt
11/21/2020, 3:52 PM
Have you checked the nodes mentioned in the error message? Having a look at the netlist and comparing between the work and not working should give you some hints
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Tim Edwards
11/21/2020, 4:02 PM
@Deepak: Also: If magic has extracted any "floating" nodes, then ngspice will fail to converge with these in the netlist unless you either get rid of them or set a minimum leakage resistance per node (.option RSHUNT=<value>); this can be set to some ridiculously high resistance like 1E12 which will keep it from affecting circuit behavior, but it will prevent the issue with failure to converge.
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Deepak
11/21/2020, 4:25 PM
@Tim Edwards , extracted
spice does not have any floating nodes. I was getting nodes as $SUB , so included .magicrc file in the same directory so that it has taken VSUBS.
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Tim Edwards
11/21/2020, 4:26 PM
And that solves the issue?
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Deepak
11/24/2020, 3:47 AM
No.. That doesn't solve the issue... But now I got it was different issue which is related to some net naming in cell which is creating issue when used in top level