UH EE Cadence Virtuoso Layout Editor: Cell Design Tutorial Guide
Computer Aided Circuit Design -- EE427
Advanced Electronic Circuits -- EE620
Special Topics in EE: Circuits -- EE693C
University of Hawaii, Department of Electrical Engineering
Cadence University Program Member
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If this is your first time using Cadence design software, please visit the UH EE Cadence Design Software General Setup Guide first.
Be sure to have your shell environment prepared for Cadence programs,
if needed, type:
source /usr/local/misc/cadencerc
(Note: If you do not copy the Cadence lines to your .cshrc, you will
need to run this source command each time you want to run Cadence products.)
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To start the documentation for Cadence design software
type:
Tutorial Section
In the CDS Doc Library, listing "Docs by Product", find the topic "Virtuoso Layout Editor: Cell Design Tutorial"
Follow the directions for installing the tutorial,
where prompted for your_install_directory, it is:
You should follow most of the instructions as they are in the tutorial,
but check back to this page for portions that are best customized to our site.
It may be easier to keep this page open and cut and paste commands into
the command line rather than typing.
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For example, in Copying the Tutorial Database, step 3, type:
cd /quantum/cds/IC/tools/dfII/samples/tutorials/le
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Loading the Cadence Software:
(The & symbol returns the shell window to your control after the Cadence program is started.)
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From here you should be able to continue on with the tutorial ...