Cadence Design Environment

        1. Introduction
        2. Setting up the environment
        3. Starting Cadence
        4. Library Manager
        5. Creating new library
        6. Creating new cell
        7. Schematic Composer
        8. Creating Symbols
        9. Logic Simulation with Verilog-XL
        10. Custom layout with Virtuoso
        11. Layout Extraction
        12. Layout Vs. Schematic (LVS)
        13. Abstract view
 

 

 

Before we begin, you need to be logged on to one of the UNIX system in our LRC laboratory.

First, we create a directory where the SCL will be stored.

        cd 
        mkdir standardcell
        chmod 700 standardcell  
  (this is to limit the access to this folder from other users)

Second,  we need to copy some Cadence setup files to this directory.  Here are these files:

        A.cdsinit  (save as .cdsinit)
        A.cdsenv (save as .cdsenv)
        A.simrc   (save as .simrc)
        cshrc       (save as .cshrc in your home directory)
        cds.lib     (save as cds.lib)

type ls -la to check these four files and we are ready to use the Cadence.

  

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