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

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

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.

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.

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.