Simulation failed, cannot compile ahdl libraries 

 Hello, I am using the IBM0.18um kit, and so far can simulate stuff without problems.

Now that i have added some customizable ESD structures to schematic, then i layed it all out, checked, lvs'ed, no problems so far.

What i want to do now is simulate the whole thing, and for some reason Cadence does not do it saying that it cannot compile ahdlcmi module library. I am not quite sure what has to be done to feed that data correctly and make MMSIM 10 simulate everything?

below is a log file:

 
Created directory input.ahdlSimDB/ (775)
Created directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_esd_modules.va.It2_monitor.ahdlcmi/ (775)
Created directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_esd_modules.va.It2_monitor.ahdlcmi/Linux/ (775)
Compiling ahdlcmi module library.

Error found by spectre during AHDL read-in.
    ERROR (VACOMP-1008): Cannot compile ahdlcmi module library. Check the log file input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_esd_modules.va.It2_monitor.ahdlcmi/Linux/../ahdlcmi.out for details. If the compiler ran out of memory, use 'setenv CDS_CMI_COMPLEVEL 0', and try again. If the reason for the failure was a syntax error, contact your Cadence Customer Support representative with the netlist, log files, behavioral model files, and any other information that can help identify the problem.
    ERROR (SFE-91): Error when elaborating the instance It2_monitor. Simulation should be terminated.

Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB/ (775)
Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_esd_modules.va.It2_monitor.ahdlcmi/ (775)
Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_esd_modules.va.It2_monitor.ahdlcmi/Linux/ (775)

Error found by spectre during AHDL read-in.
    ERROR (VACOMP-2235): Internal Compiling Error: The built-in termcurs parameter is redefined in module 'It2_monitor'.
        Please send the netlist, log files, behavioral model files, and any other information that can help identify the problem to support@cadence.com.
    ERROR (VACOMP-1816): Exiting AHDL compilation.
    ERROR (SFE-91): Error when elaborating the instance It2_monitor. Simulation should be terminated.

Opening directory input.ahdlSimDB/ (775)
Created directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_mvcap.va.mosvarcap.ahdlcmi/ (775)
Created directory input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_mvcap.va.mosvarcap.ahdlcmi/Linux/ (775)
Compiling ahdlcmi module library.

Error found by spectre during AHDL read-in.
    ERROR (VACOMP-1008): Cannot compile ahdlcmi module library. Check the log file input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_mvcap.va.mosvarcap.ahdlcmi/Linux/../ahdlcmi.out for details. If the compiler ran out of memory, use 'setenv CDS_CMI_COMPLEVEL 0', and try again. If the reason for the failure was a syntax error, contact your Cadence Customer Support representative with the netlist, log files, behavioral model files, and any other information that can help identify the problem.
    ERROR (SFE-91): Error when elaborating the instance mosvarcap. Simulation should be terminated.
Error found by spectre during AHDL read-in.
    ERROR (VACOMP-1697): "parameter real (*integer inherited_mfactor; *) m=1;<<--? "
        "Internal (bsource)", line 381: Attempting to redefine identifier 'm'. Remove the extra definition or use a different identifier.


Time for Elaboration: CPU = 1.00685 s, elapsed = 1.58013 s.
Time accumulated: CPU = 1.41178 s, elapsed = 2.02404 s.
Peak resident memory used = 40.2 Mbytes.

spectre terminated prematurely due to fatal error.

by the way, i tried setenv CDS_CMI_COMPLEVEL 0, it did not help.

any ideas?

Did you try checking the log file that it suggested:

input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_mvcap.va.mosvarcap.ahdlcmi/Linux/../ahdlcmi.out

What does that say? Which OS are you running on? (please post the output of:
cat /etc/redhat-release ; uname -a
)

Regards,

Andrew.

That directory is not explicitly specified, where do i find input.ahdlSimDB... ?  under which directory should i find it? I looked in Simulation folder, cadence folder under which i have all files, and could not find that file?

and regarding the version of OS:

Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon)
Linux desktop1 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6

So far there were no issues with that, i can simulate just about anything, layout, lvs etc... except this error..

 Thanks Andrew, well, here goes the log from that last simulation whcih failed:

ahdlcmicompile: Compiling ahdlcmi in input.ahdlSimDB//2156_cmrf7sf_relML_Spectre_models_mvcap.va.mosvarcap.ahdlcmi/Linux/ for Linux with optimize using gcc on Mon Nov  5 13:07:40 MST 2012 [5.0]
ahdlcmicompile: Generating makefile
PATH:  /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.1/install/bin:/opt/cadence/IC610/bin:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/bin:/opt/cadence/IC610/share/oa/bin:/opt/cadence/ASSURA41/tools/dfII/bin:/opt/cadence/ASSURA41/tools/assura/bin:/opt/cadence/ASSURA41/tools/bin:/opt/cadence/EXT101/tools/bin:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools/bin:/opt/cadence/IC610/share/bin:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MATLAB/R2012a/bin:/home/blackops/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:  /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.1/install/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/mdl/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/mmsim/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/inca/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/lib:/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/lib/SuSE:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/lib:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/lib/SuSE/SLES11:/opt/cadence/IC610/share/oa/lib/linux_rhel40_32/opt:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/QT/lib:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/lib:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/sev/lib:/opt/cadence/IC610/tools/inca/lib:/opt/cadence/ASSURA41/tools/assura/lib:/opt/cadence/ASSURA41/tools/lib:/opt/cadence/EXT101/tools/lib
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/bin/gnumake -j3 -f GNUmakefile
Compiling C file mosvarcap_func.c (optimize) with -O0
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -c mosvarcap_func.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_func.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_func.o
Compiling C file mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.c (optimize)
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -c mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.o
Compiling C file mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.c (optimize)
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -c mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.o
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_func.c
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.c
Compiling C file mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.c (optimize)
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -c mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.o
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.c
Compiling C file mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.c (optimize)
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -c mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.o
Compiling C file mosvarcap_cmi_c.c (optimize) with -O0
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc  -march=i686 -m32 -ffast-math -O0 -DSYSV -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC   -DconfigSPECTRE -I. -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/spectre/ahdlcmi/include -I/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cmi/include -c mosvarcap_cmi_c.c -o obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_cmi_c.o || rm -f -f obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_cmi_c.o
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.c
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.c
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
rm -f -rf mosvarcap_cmi_c.c
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc -shared -O0 -fPIC -o obj/optimize/5.0/libahdlcmi.so ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_func.o ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncDerLoad.o ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_DcFuncLoad.o ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncDerLoad.o ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_TranFuncLoad.o ./obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_cmi_c.o  -m32 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/lib -s
/opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/bin/cdsgcc: line 264: /opt/cadence/MMSIM111/tools.lnx86/cdsgcc/gcc/4.4/install/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
gnumake: *** [obj/optimize/5.0/libahdlcmi.so] Error 126
gnumake: *** No rule to make target `obj/optimize/5.0/mosvarcap_func.o', needed by `obj/optimize/5.0/libahdlcmi.so'.  Stop.
 

Now, as you see gnumake failed and it seems that it just couldnt execute binary file, gcc.

I navigated to that folder and saw that its there, but the weird thing is it has: 55261 - user #55261  as an owner. I have no Idea why that would be? 

and i tried to change ownership of that file as a root, and give it to me, just to test if it works, but the "chown myuser bin" did not do anything!

 any idea what can be done ?

My guess is that you're running a 32-bit OS, and we only support 64-bit OS versions these days (plus the fact that you're using an unsupported distribution of Linux, but that's probably not the issue). I would expect the "uname -a" output to have  x86_64 in it somewhere.

Andrew.

thanks. Yes that was the problem I later on discovered, so to get it working on 32bit I had to switch to MMSIM10 on those machines.