Q: Whom should I contact regarding Star-Hspice installation?
A: To contact the Star-Hspice technical support team, submit a question to:
To ensure Avant! has a thorough understanding of your question, please provide all pertinent details.
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Q: I am having trouble installing Star-Hspice on my Windows NT machine. Do you have any suggestions?
A: A common solution is setting Windows NT environment variables ($installdir, LM_LICENSE_FILE and PATH) in ControlPanel->System; these are not set by default.
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Q: I recently upgraded or installed a newer (post-97.4) Star-Hspice version; however, now I cannot simulate out of Analog Artist from Cadence. It is issuing an error message about not being able to find "permit.hsp." Or perhaps Analog Artist is spawning the incorrect version of Star-Hspice. What do I do?
A: Most installations of Cadence Composer/Analog Artist create a script that is run to bring up the framework. Within this script, they are setting the $installdir environment variable. Edit this script and point the $installdir variable to the new Star-Hspice installation directory (the directory that contains the "bin" directory, which in turn contains the Star-Hspice and AvanWaves scripts).
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Q: I am having problems installing my new node-locked Star-Hspice license. The error I am receiving is: " invalid hostid ". Star-Hspice is reporting a hostid of 0, but I have the dongle installed! What should I do?
A: Node-locked versions of Star-Hspice on the PC require the use of a parallel port dongle. Under WinNT, you must install a driver to be able to use the dongle. The installation program is "setupx86.exe" in the %installdir% directory. Under Win98/95, it is not necessary to run the "setupx86.exe" sentinel driver.
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Star-Hspice Manual - Release 2001.2 - June 2001