AT&T ORCA Foundry Tools

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Installation Notes

Foundry 9.1 Installation

Installed Foundry v9.1 and patches a, c, d, and e. Did not install device libraries which we do not use to save disk space. Therefore, to use a device not in this installation, you need to re-install everything.

Foundry 9.0 Reinstallation

For some reason, the Froundry utilities were not working and needed to be reinstalled. Foundry 9.0 was reinstalled. Update A, which incorporates patch.a and patch.b, was installed on top of that. The latest patch, patch.d, was retrieve from orca.fast.net and installed on top of that. For more information on the update and patches read readme.90a, readme.90b, Update A release notes and readme.90d.

In addition to reinstallation, the inittab file on dairy-queen was modified so that the Synopsys and Foundry license daemons(lmgrd) would load on boot. See the HP-UX Administrator's Manual for information on how to do this.

Foundry 9.0 Installation

This version fixes some bugs and system crash problems of version 7.1. For details, please see the readme files for patch a and patch b.

Foundry 7.1 Installation

We have installed the following pieces of software under /att_orca on dairy-queen:

• ORCA Foundry Base System, ORCA 2c40 device architecture, an AT&T ORCA/Synopsys integration kit (version 3.1b), a tutorial from the V7.1 distribution CD_ROM.
• All the patches for V7.1 from the ORCA web site. The patches are listed in this readme file .
• Added orca library for Synopsys v3.4 release under /att_orca/synopsys/data/orca2 and updated designware library (by re-analyzing the source code with dc_shell). This procedure caused an out of memory problem, but was eventually fixed by reconfiguring the kernel with the maximum data and text segment sizes increased to 128M (from original 64M).

Note that we have only one node locked license on dairy-queen.

Setting Up Environment Variables and Path

Each user need to include a dotfile package "att_orca" in your .csh_env file. This package contains necessary environment variables. I suggest you include the following lines in your .csh_env file

if (`hostname` == dairy-queen) then
        setenv GARDEN_PREPEND att_orca
else
endif

Foundry 9.0 added a little bit to its license server. The following lines need to be added to you .csh_env file in order to use the Foundry 9.0 utilities.

#   Add lmgrd license variable for ORCA Foundry
if ( `hostname` == dairy-queen ) then
        setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE /att_orca/license/license.txt
endif

Foundry FAQ

• How does Foundry route a clock signal to the clock spine

Getting Help

• Once you have your environment and path set up, you can use "orcadoc&" to open the online documentation. It is an alias that opens the right document using frame viewer software distributed with cadence tools. I did not install the frame maker program that comes with ATT foundry tools to save disk space.
• The AT&T FPGA hotline is 1-800-EASY-FPGA, or orcafpga@aloft.lucent.com by email. You may need site ID and other information for identification.
• The Lucent-direct local sales representative is Debbie or Mike of Universal Technology at 890-8523.
• The sales representative at Lucent is Sharon Lymch at 610-712-6665 or Dave Kanyock (manager) at 610-712-7653.
• The local representative (FAE) of AT&T is Rich Halper at 508-626-3720, or email: rhapler@lucent.com.
• AT&T's ftp site often has the latest bug fixes and software patches for founday and synopsys library .
• There are email correspondences which may provide some useful information.
• The software was purchased through Tri-Logic at 508-658-3800.