[IBIS-Users] Re: [IBIS] Re: Ibis generation problem


Subject: [IBIS-Users] Re: [IBIS] Re: Ibis generation problem
From: Wil Ngan (wngan@idt.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 10:08:46 PDT


Todd Westerhoff wrote:

> I think I remember this one.
>
> I think it's a memory corruption (bad pointer) problem (as Mike said). Take
> a close look at your .s2i file - if memory serves, you'll find out that the
> model name you called out in the [Pin] section doesn't exactly match the
> model name you have in the [Model] section. That drives s2ibis2 nuts.

Thanks for you reply Todd. I've double checked, the model names
in [Pin] and [Model] section match exactly, plus all the characters are in
capitals.

> Another thing that has perplexed me in the past has been when I used pin
> names longer than 5 characters. S2ibis2 wants to be able to append 3
> characters to the pin name, add a ".spi" extension, and still end up with a
> legal 8.3 character file name. Use a 6 or more character pin name, and you
> get another set of weird problems that are hard to diagnose.

I'm using only one character (the number "7") as pin name.
I'm currently having our system admin guys download the s2bis_fix version
and see if that works.

>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Todd.
>
> Todd Westerhoff
> High Speed Design Specialist
> Cisco Systems
> 1414 Massachusetts Ave - Boxboro, MA - 01719
> email:twesterh@cisco.com
> ph: 978-936-2149

|------------------------------------------------------------------
|For help or to subscribe/unsubscribe, email majordomo@eda.org
|with just the appropriate command message(s) in the body:
|
| help
| subscribe ibis <optional e-mail address, if different>
| subscribe ibis-users <optional e-mail address, if different>
| unsubscribe ibis <optional e-mail address, if different>
| unsubscribe ibis-users <optional e-mail address, if different>
|
|or email a written request to ibis-request@eda.org.
|
|IBIS reflector archives exist under:
|
| http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email_archive/ Recent
| http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/users_archive/ Recent
| http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/email/ E-mail since 1993



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Tue Apr 15 2003 - 10:15:19 PDT