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Saving in an OA environment
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Wednesday 4th March 2026
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I am a newcomer to layoutEditor and I am trying to enter a simple schematic and save it. I have managed to read in an OA library and set up a new library for the schematics, and enter a schematic. The schematic looks OK. Before I added components from the library, I was able to save the schematic in an OA database (the schematic only contained ports and wires). Now that I have added devices from the attached library, when I save I get a message that says: "Save of OpenAccess schematic "test1" Fatal errors: 1 Aborted. " With no other explanation... So I am having difficulty to debug. What might I have done wrong, and is there a way to find out more details/clues when this occurs? The library was from a foundry supplied Cadence OA database that used Skill generators for layout of primitives, and so the first time I instance a symbol I get an error message about this (example attached), but the symbols are dropped into the schematic OK and thereafter seem to behave fine (and I can edit parameters OK). I am only interested in the schematics at this stage. But perhaps this is the reason it won't save? I would appreciate your help to resolve this.
LayoutEditorFull
Wednesday 4th March 2026
Attachments:
(only for registered users)
schematic.png
LayoutEditorOpenAccessInfo.png
LicenseInfo.png
CellInfo.png
first_instance_error_example.png
I am a newcomer to layoutEditor and I am trying to enter a simple schematic and save it. I have managed to read in an OA library and set up a new library for the schematics, and enter a schematic. The schematic looks OK. Before I added components from the library, I was able to save the schematic in an OA database (the schematic only contained ports and wires). Now that I have added devices from the attached library, when I save I get a message that says: "Save of OpenAccess schematic "test1" Fatal errors: 1 Aborted. " With no other explanation... So I am having difficulty to debug. What might I have done wrong, and is there a way to find out more details/clues when this occurs? The library was from a foundry supplied Cadence OA database that used Skill generators for layout of primitives, and so the first time I instance a symbol I get an error message about this (example attached), but the symbols are dropped into the schematic OK and thereafter seem to behave fine (and I can edit parameters OK). I am only interested in the schematics at this stage. But perhaps this is the reason it won't save? I would appreciate your help to resolve this.
Jürgen
LayoutEditorFull
Friday 6th March 2026 You are using a OpenAccess library that contains parametric cells. The core OpenAccess includes an interface for plug-ins that handle parametric cells, but any king of plug-in itself is not included. So to get the layout of an parametric cell the required plug-in needs to be installed separately. You error message points that your library uses SKILL. This plug-in is only available for Cadence customers. My recommendation is to check if your library exists also for Synopsys tools using PyCell as parametric cell plug-in. This plug-in can be downloaded on the Synopsys webpage without fees. Your core problem with saving the schematic is completely independent of this. I guess you have tried to add a cell to the existing (PDK) OpenAccess library and the file system of this library is write protected. Please setup a new own OpenAccess library and make it the working library. All new cell will then be store in this library.
LayoutEditorFull
Friday 6th March 2026 You are using a OpenAccess library that contains parametric cells. The core OpenAccess includes an interface for plug-ins that handle parametric cells, but any king of plug-in itself is not included. So to get the layout of an parametric cell the required plug-in needs to be installed separately. You error message points that your library uses SKILL. This plug-in is only available for Cadence customers. My recommendation is to check if your library exists also for Synopsys tools using PyCell as parametric cell plug-in. This plug-in can be downloaded on the Synopsys webpage without fees. Your core problem with saving the schematic is completely independent of this. I guess you have tried to add a cell to the existing (PDK) OpenAccess library and the file system of this library is write protected. Please setup a new own OpenAccess library and make it the working library. All new cell will then be store in this library.