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Cadence VPCD is EOL ? (Read 2744 times)

pancho_hideboo Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1424 Real Homeless	Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Jun 09^th, 2009, 6:02am I heard a rumor that Cadence VPCD(Virtuoso Passive Component Designer) is End-Of-Life. Is this true ? If so, when will it be excluded from MMSIM package ? Any expert of Cadence Tools, teach me.
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Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ?
Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2009, 7:25am

I posted a question previously and Andrew said VPCD is in limited-support mode, so I wouldn't be surprised if its EOL now.

http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1234900114/0#1

The tool always seemed incomplete to me and Andrew also mentioned that the 'custom inductor/transformer' features have been dropped (although they are still present in the GUI).

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pancho_hideboo Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1424 Real Homeless	Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2009, 3:51am oermens wrote on Jun 9^th, 2009, 7:25am: The tool always seemed incomplete to me. See the followings. http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1169632704/8#8 http://www.edaboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=335639
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Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ?
Reply #3 - Jun 14^th, 2009, 9:02pm

Cadence told their existing customers in 2008 Q4 that they were discontinuing development and sales of their VPCD and VRFD products. It was supposedly a business decision due to lack of sales.

Cadence's normal procedure is to keep the code in their installation until it becomes so obsolete that it doesn't work anymore. They won't really cut off any existing users (who are paying on-going maintenance), but they also won't allow any new purchases of licenses for those products.

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Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ?
Reply #4 - Jun 15^th, 2009, 1:13am

pelliman wrote on Jun 14^th, 2009, 9:02pm:

Cadence's normal procedure is to keep the code in their installation until it becomes so obsolete that it doesn't work anymore.
They won't really cut off any existing users (who are paying on-going maintenance).

I don't think so.

I can't launch pakage modeler even as stand alone tool by invoking "pkg" command now although an executable binary file of package modeler still exists as "$CDS_INST_DIR/tools/dfII/bin/pkg".

http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1207809848/2#2

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oermens Community Member Offline Posts: 86	Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Reply #5 - Jun 26^th, 2009, 3:40am Confirmed by Andrew. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.cad.cadence/browse_thread/thread/9b4cf56776a...
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pancho_hideboo Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1424 Real Homeless	Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Reply #6 - Jun 27^th, 2009, 2:27am pelliman wrote on Jun 14^th, 2009, 9:02pm: but they also won't allow any new purchases of licenses for those products. Current status of VPCD is right this.
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Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ?
Reply #7 - Jul 10^th, 2009, 6:11am

It's end-of-lifed, as references have noted. We continue to support critical issues for key customers, but there will be no new sales.

The general process is to leave the executables around for a while, so that legacy users can still use them, but after a few releases they will be removed. As I just appended in the post by Pancho Hideboo about pkg, pkg has been removed in IC61X.

Regards,

Andrew.

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analogger New Member Offline Posts: 2	Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Reply #8 - Jan 15^th, 2010, 1:45am Is there any tool from competitors similar to VPCD? If no, how to best do now what VPCD used to do (e.g. designing spiral inductors)? Thanks.
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pancho_hideboo Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1424 Real Homeless	Re: Cadence VPCD is EOL ? Reply #9 - Jan 15^th, 2010, 2:01am analogger wrote on Jan 15^th, 2010, 1:45am: Is there any tool from competitors similar to VPCD? For example, use followings. http://www.lorentzsolution.com/peakview_emd.html http://www.helic.com/velocerf/features
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