Cadence IC5 and SpectreRF

[RF_Router]

Hi,

I have a question. Is SpectreRF is part of IC5?

Thanks
RF_Router

 

[hqqh]

Hi,

yes it is. spectre is the default spice simulator in ic5 and spectrerf is the rf-extention for spectre. both are included in ic5.

greetings,
hqqh

 

[T Zul]

No, you need to upgrade to ic5033

T Zul

 

[hqqh]

hi,

to T Zul:
as i know, spectreRF is also included in ic446. so why it should be included in ic533 and not in the earlier versions?

greetings,
hqqh

 

[tsinghua]

IC4.46 4.47 5.0 5.33 all include spectre with different version.

 

[tlihu]

Does AN1 know the differece of spectre, spectreS, hspiceS, and spiceD? I'm a newbie for using IC5 for designing IC.

 

[gianni]

You could use IC5.0isr2 for linux
it is a full release

Gianni

 

[RF_Router]

Hi all,

I have difficulties installing IC5 on Linux 7.3. Can anyone tell me how to setup the environment variables that they will load up automatically?

Thanks
RF_Router

 

[tlihu]

Hi all,

I have difficulties installing IC5 on Linux 7.3. Can anyone tell me how to setup the environment variables that they will load up automatically?

Thanks
RF_Router

What kind of problem do you have? Installing or running the software?

 

[RF_Router]

Hi tilhu,

I believe I have installed it correctly cause it went through the entire installation no problem.

I have problems setting up the variables. I don't really know how to do it. I entered the variables in CSH (cshell) manually. But I had problem with running the license file.
So first it takes me few times until I put the variable each time so I wonder how to make it automatically when I log on as root.

Thanks
RF_Router

Hi all,

I have difficulties installing IC5 on Linux 7.3. Can anyone tell me how to setup the environment variables that they will load up automatically?

Thanks
RF_Router

What kind of problem do you have? Installing or running the software?

 

[tlihu]

The environments I set for running IC5 are
1. CDS_LIC_FILE, which points to the license file containing IC5 features;
2. CDSDIR, which points to <$cds_inst_dir>/tools (u need to "ln -s tools.lnx86 tools" first);
3. CDS_INSTALL_DIR, which is set to $CDSDIR/dfII;
4. PATH, add $CDSDIR/bin and $CDS_INSTALL_DIR/bin to search path; finally,
5. LD_LIBRARY_PATH, add $CDSDIR/lib

To invoke icms, I use
icms -use24 &

Good luck!

 

[RF_Router]

Hi tlihu,

Do you know how to make this setting load up automatically in Linux?

Thanks
RF_Router

 

[felixkao]

You can set it to your shell or set it to alias command.

 

[klug]

RF_Router,

create file in your home dir: ~/.profile

Add to it :

--------------------------------
CDS_LIC_FILE=xxxx
CDSDIR=xxxx
CDS_INSTALL_DIR=xxxx
...
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$CDSDIR/lib

export CDS_LIC_FILE CDSDIR CDS_INSTALL_DIR LD_LIBRARY_PATH ...
--------------------------------

Change ... and xxxx to all other settings.