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QuickSim: MODEL property expected but not found, NULL model will be inserted


Record #1562

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  Mentor

Problem Title:
QuickSim: MODEL property expected but not found, NULL model will be
inserted



Problem Description:
Keywords: QuickSim, MODEL property, NULL model

Urgency: Standard

General Description:

QuickSim may be unable to find registration models for ABEL or XNF blocks
during functional simulation:

   Instance '/BLANK'
	 MODEL property expected but not found on primitive instance.
	 NULL model will be inserted.


Solution 1:

When a design contains ABEL or XNF modules, FncSim8 must generate
schematics for the those blocks using the GEN_SCH8 utility.  These
simulation schematics are placed in the same directory as the ABL/XNF files
referenced by the FILE property on the corresponding symbols.  If a full
absolute path is not given, then the name given as the FILE value is
assumed to be relative to the Mentor working directory in $MGC_WD.  If the
Mentor components for the symbols are in a different location from the
ABL/XNF files, then the resulting schematics will not be linked
(registered) to those symbols, resulting in this error.

Make sure that you symbol components and corresponding ABL/XNF files are in
the same directory.  In this example, if the symbol component for the
instance /BLANK were called "bullets", then the bullets.abl/xnf file would
have to reside at the same level of the hierarchy as the bullets directory
and its corresponding bullets.mgc_component.attr file.



End of Record #1562