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Message started by Voldemort on Jul 7^th, 2003, 5:24pm

Title: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Voldemort on Jul 7^th, 2003, 5:24pm

Hi,

I would like to know if the cadence IC tool suite (spectre, virtuoso etc) version 4.4.3 or 4.4.6 is available for linux. If yes is it available for universities under the cadence-university partnership programs.

I ask this because my department is part of the cadence university program and my research group would rather go the Linux route than invest in Sun boxes.

I understand I should be asking this question to my
departmeny sysadmin to check with cadence but he is usually "very busy".

Thanks

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Mighty Mouse on Jul 7^th, 2003, 10:09pm

Earlier this year Cadence released Spectre and Virtuoso version 4.4.7 on Linux. It generally takes a year before new versions are made available to the univeristy software program, and it could take up to one more year before your university gets the updated software. This assumes that you are a US university. I don't know how it works outside the US, but its probably similar.

- MM -

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Voldemort on Jul 8^th, 2003, 2:34pm

Thanks for the info Mighty Mouse. I understand what you say about 4.4.7.

Would you know if 4.4.6 or any of the prev versions was released for Linux at all ?

Thanks

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Mighty Mouse on Jul 8^th, 2003, 9:33pm

No, 4.4.7 was the first release for the CIC tools.
- MM -

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jul 9^th, 2003, 5:17am

It'a actually 5.0 which is on Linux. There was no release
called 4.4.7 (it was going to be 4.4.7 but was renamed
shortly before its release).

5.0 was released on Linux in February this year (5.0
was released on Solaris, HPUX and IBM-AIX last year
some time), and is the first IC version that is available
on Linux (some other streams, such as LDV, have been
available on Linux for a while).

Regards,

Andrew.

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Voldemort on Jul 12^th, 2003, 6:27pm

Andrew, Mighty Mouse

Thanks for the clarification. Is there somewhere on the cadence site or somewhere else where this information is freely available. i.e the status of the various programs for educational release.

This information would be useful for us to determine if we should wait for the linux version or invest in sun boxes.

Thanks

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jul 28^th, 2003, 9:45pm

Voldemort,

http://www.cadence.com/support/hardware_platform_support.html

(Click on the support link on the main www.cadence.com page). This is not a restricted site - unlike http://sourcelink

Regards,

Andrew.

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Voldemort on Dec 3^rd, 2003, 9:43am

Hi,

Thanks for all your help. I was finally able to convince out sysadmin to get the linux version of IC5.0.
Now I am supposed to install it and get it up and running...

Some questions regarding the installation .....

Is the licenses and the licenses server setup the same for the solaris version and the linux version.

I am able to install the product thru the initial setup.sh script. Then I check for the installed products and it shows clearly all that I have installed.

But when I try to configure the installation...the option is greyed out.

any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks

Title: Re: IC Tool Suite (Spectre,Virtuoso etc) for Linux
Post by Andrew Beckett on Dec 5^th, 2003, 1:21am

The licenses can just share the same licenses you have already - you
presumably have a central license server - you just need to configure
the software (covered in the documentation) to point to the same licenses.

Licenses are not platform specific.

As for the configuration, it's greyed out because there are no products
on the linux version which need configuration. There were a couple of
older ones on Sun that needed this in the IC stream, but since those
products are effectively end-of-lifed they weren't ported to Linux (if
I remember rightly...). To be honest, I'm not sure that the configuration
is strictly needed even on Sun for IC50.

Regards,

Andrew.