LDV is a separate installation stream, which holds the tools
for digital simulation and verification (_L_ogic _D_esign _V_erification),
but the notation is old.
The new name for that is IUS (Incisive Unified Simulator, I heard)
and goes from release 5.3 to 5.8 right now, supported 5.4 to 5.8.
Because the AMS designer is based on NC-Sim, the digital simulator,
the IUS stream contains the AMS designer.
If you want to go with the UI of your analog environment or the
'Hierarchy Editor' as front end you need to have the IC stream istalleled
as well.
Quote:and what's the difference between icfb and icms
icms and icfb are wapper scripts around the underlying
binary. They're controlling which tool set will be loaded, there
are even more than these two.
icfb - IC Front to Back
icms - IC Mixed Signal
In my opinion this is a relict of the old days where computers
were not that powerful, to limit the memory allocation from
Cadence DFII.
Quote:Everything has to be found and setup by ourselves
Have fun.
Bernd