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Title: Any software for viewing old design data ? Post by AnalogAroma on Nov 5th, 2007, 11:26am H Everybody, Nowadays if I want to see my design works in old chip design projects, I need to install the project-specific design kit again as Cadence does not support multiple processes at the same time. This is quite annoying and on several occasions I need to re-invent the wheel . Do you know any software that will store all the design data of a finished project and enable us to look into old designs easily ? With Regards, Analog Aroma |
Title: Re: Any software for viewing old design data Post by Paul on Dec 3rd, 2007, 12:58pm Hi, You'll have to back up your Cadence version with the design kit and the design data... A good alternative is called "documentation" ;) Paul |
Title: Re: Any software for viewing old design data ? Post by smcbutler on Jan 31st, 2008, 10:39pm AnalogAroma wrote on Nov 5th, 2007, 11:26am:
Perhaps you need a design data management tool? One tool optimized for analog designers is VersIC by MethodICs. This is tightly integrated into Cadence DFII, Virtuoso, Composer, and ADE. It uses as its backend database a choice of Perforce or Subversion. www.methodics-eda.com |
Title: Re: Any software for viewing old design data ? Post by Christoph M on Jun 30th, 2008, 3:57pm Paul wrote on Dec 3rd, 2007, 12:58pm:
Now what do you do if you can get access to the Cadence design (DFWII) files, but don't own Cadence? Is there any way to get access to Cadence on a temporary basis, mainly just to look at old designs and export some documentation (e.g., schematic printouts)? How painful (both in terms of setting up design kits and $$$) would that be? Christoph M |
Title: Re: Any software for viewing old design data ? Post by achim.graupner on Aug 14th, 2008, 10:41pm My dear, if you just want so view schematics it might be helpful to copy the Primitive-Library into the working directory and remove everything from it besides the symbol views (using command line, especially care any .il-files, they may interfere with the PDK). Everything else is complicated indeed. Achim |
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