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Message started by Julian18 on Nov 20^th, 2008, 11:00pm

Title: How to use vcs or vsim inside Cadence ADE
Post by Julian18 on Nov 20^th, 2008, 11:00pm

Hi, there
I am just on a mixed-signal project, sine we dont have nc verilog licence, what can I do to simulate a mixed-signal project in which both cadence schematic and Verilog HDL is used. When I asked the digital guys, they told me they use vcs or vsim to compile the HDL file. I wonder if it is possible for cadence to call other verilog compilers?

Thanks.

Title: Re: How to use vcs or vsim inside Cadence ADE
Post by jbdavid on Dec 18^th, 2008, 7:20pm

If you use spectre for your analog, you need AMS.. I don't think you need NCSIM license, as long as you have enough MMSIM tokens available (AMS needs 3 tokens)
you do need an AMS environment license.

Otherwise you are stuck with command line simulation, and you need the right analog simulator ( or other technology) to simulate the digital with the analog.

SNPS has a mixed signal simulator, (nanosimVCS) there might be an ADE interface for it.. but you would need to purchase it from SNPS not from Cadence..

good luck..