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 for only ONCE!

2. Type " cp  -ese570/cadence/cadence.tgz  ~/. "

This command copies the Cadence souce files to your root directory.

3. Please make sure that you are in your "root" directory before you are running this command.

   Type " unzip cadence.tgz "

   

The following steps will be done every time you run Cadence

4. Type " cd  cadence "
5. Type " source  .bashrc.cadence "
6. Type " icfb& "

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,

Before proceeding...

Before we discuss how to build a custom library, you should make a directory in you account (say ESE570). To do this, type mkdir ESE570 (this creates a directory by the name of ESE570). This way you can have your library in a separate directory. 

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