universal-netlist (IntelligentElectron) errors

7 recurring problems engineers report in universal-netlist (IntelligentElectron), ranked by impact.

#67 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring universal-netlist (IntelligentElectron) errors, by impact

  1. 1export-json ignores --design_variant: four exports of a two-variant Cadence design (no variant, A, B, and a nonexistent variant name) all exit 0 and are byte-for-byte identical, and the file records no variant, so nobody downstream can tell which build it is. The query tools on the same design refuse to run without a valid variant.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2An Altium project with CR CR LF line endings reported No schematic documents found and silently lost every netlisting option, falling back to defaults.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3Capture lets you give one reference designator to two different parts. Allegro's netlister refuses that design. The universal-netlist reader, which feeds an agent query and ERC layer, keyed parts by refdes, so the last pin written won and the part reported a mix of both parts' wiring. Now each part keeps its pins, a pin query on that refdes is refused as ambiguous, and export refuses either case.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  4. 4Follow-up to #272 from the last sweep: export now refuses a missing or unknown variant and writes metadata.designVariant, so downstream tools can tell which build a file is.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  5. 5Old OrCAD .DSN files with Library stream 1.1 or 2.0 failed with Expected null terminator for empty string at offset 358, hitting 14 corpus designs.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  6. 6The universal-netlist parser dropped every pin with no number, so nets came out short, and one real part's three GND pins made an agent think a ground pin was floating.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  7. 7A netlist plugin for agents failed in the Claude desktop app with Executable not found in $PATH, because GUI-started apps build PATH from a login shell, which reads .zprofile and not the .zshrc line the installer wrote.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report58

How it fails

  1. Agent failure7

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