so I tried both fixes, I'm still getting stuff like this

Progress! Can you upload

mpw8.spice

,

mpw8_mag.spice

and the full lvs report?

let me make a few changes first (I noticed one of my components wasn't connected right in magic)

Looks like your

mpw8.spice

file is xschem output. For LVS, be sure to choose

Simulation -> LVS netlist: Top level is a .subckt

before creating your netlist. You’ll want to match your pin names, too.

IO15                                                                              |io_in[15] **Mismatch**
GA13                                                                              |gpio_analog[13] **Mismatch**
GA10                                                                              |gpio_analog[10] **Mismatch**
IO9                                                                               |io_out[9] **Mismatch**
GA5                                                                               |gpio_analog[5] **Mismatch**
IO10                                                                              |io_in[10] **Mismatch**
GA12                                                                              |gpio_analog[12] **Mismatch**
GA0                                                                               |gpio_analog[0] **Mismatch**
IO13                                                                              |io_out[13] **Mismatch**
GA9                                                                               |gpio_analog[9] **Mismatch**
GA1                                                                               |gpio_analog[1] **Mismatch**

oh, so instead of abbreviating the names I have to write them out?