Cadence
We use Cadence
Design Tools for schematic capture, simulation, and layout
of our hardware designs.
Getting Started
A few restrictions, for now:
- You must be running a shell (from an X capable workstation)
on dairy-queen.media.mit.edu. Soon we hope to run on any HP700
running HPUX v9.0
- You must be using the garden dotfiles.
To use Cadence, add (or change) the following line in your .csh_env
file (right before the setenv GARDEN_APPEND line) :
setenv GARDEN_PREPEND "cadence"
To get started browsing documentation, type "openbook &" or
"openbook help &"
Also browse the Garden FAQ for
information.
How-To Docs
The following is a collection of documents created by other Cadence
users here at the lab to help pass along experience and lessons-learned.
Having Problems ?
We are supported by Cadence under the
university program
(a GREAT deal), but as a consequence requests for support have to
go through one person (currently wad.) If you need help, there are
several options :
- Send mail to the Media Lab Cadence Users (cadence@media.mit.edu).
- RTFM! Type openbook &
- Check out the Garden FAQ. These are quick tips which did not warrant a full "How-to" page of their own.
- Check out SourceLink, Cadence's support homepage.
If Media Lab, click here for passwd.
PLEASE don't ask Cadence questions directly !
- The Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT also maintains a Cadence Help Page.
- There is also a not-so-useful newsgroup
where you can post questions and hopefully get some useful responses.
- Send wad@media.mit.edu mail.
cadence@media.mit.edu
This is a "fix it yourself" page, located at
${CHEOPS_BASE}/WWW/cadence/index.html