Tutorials:Cadence:StartingCadence

Starting the Cadence software

In order to set up the CADENCE environment, please do the following steps:

1. Open a terminal window.

The SECOND and THIRD steps will be done only ONCE!

2. Download Cadence.tar to your home directory.

Please make sure that you are in your home directory before you are running this command:

3. Type "tar  -xvf Cadence.tar".

The following steps will be done every time you run Cadence:

4. Type "bash" to run the bash shell (if not already).
5. Type "cd cadence".
6. Type "source .bashrc.cadence".
7. Type "virtuoso &".

You will see the following window when you start Cadence:



Why did we type an '&' after the command?

The '&' put the design manager into the background so that you can still use the command window in which you typed the command. If you had not done that, you would not be able to type any new commands in the window. You would have had to open a new window and log into your remote machine through this window to do anything else on that machine.

This window is called the Command Interpreter Window (CIW). This window represents the Design Framework II environment, and provides access to Cadence through its menus, or its input line using SKILL commands. The CIW window is the control window for the cadence software.

Note:

You can ssh to the following PCs and run Cadence remotely:
grid.cec.wustl.edu
n401.int.cec.wustl.edu
n402.int.cec.wustl.edu
n403.int.cec.wustl.edu
…….
n430.int.cec.wustl.edu

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