[Help] icfb starting problem. [IC50 in Redhat 9.0]

[cmosbjt]

the icfb stops

I have been struggling in installing ic50 in redhat 9 these days. Finally the exciting moment comes, i can see the splash screen come out and then ...... as you can see in the attached picture, it stuck there!!

Another problem is, as many people mentioned before, cadence can only support the color depth of 8/24 bit. My graphic card is ATI RADEON 9600 series, it seems it could only support 256/16bit/32bit color, no 24 bit. I am wondering if the card is too good to be used! Not logical huh? The picture I capture is under the 256 color config.

Anyone faced these problems before, any suggestion? Thanks a lot!

BTW, i use vmware runing in W2K and Redhat is the guest OS.
(can anyone help me to post the attached picture in my message?)

 

[Johnson]

starting icfb in 24 bit color

You will face more problem in future, Mandrake Linux seems to be better specially V9.2, try it!!!!

 

[cmosbjt]

redhat 9+icfb

You will face more problem in future, Mandrake Linux seems to be better specially V9.2, try it!!!!

Hi can you explain in more detail? or do you runing cadence in Mandrake? less problem than in RH? Thanks

 

[amarnath]

icfb cadence color depth

This is already a topic which has been discussed for year. With no doubt, Redhat7.2 is a classic and wide spreaded Linux distribution version, therefore it is compatible with most eda software. However Redhat7.2 is too old and it can not support the newest hardware, for example, USB 2.0. What's more on my computer(KT266A, Athlon XP 2400+), Redhat7.2 even can not be installed, the installation always stops right before the system begins to copy the files. Quite unforturnatly, RedHat 8.0 either won't be installed on my computer.
I spent almost a week to figure out whether it is possible to install the cadence !C5033 in RH9. Finally I find the solution and now this software runs quite well. Because it is a quite time-consuming job to get !C5033 work in RH9, I would like to share my experience with you.

1. Check whether the software package "ncompress" is installed by type in rpm -q -l ncompress, because the commando uncompress(origionally from Unix, and because of the *** problem it is gradually replace by gzip/gunzip/zcat in the Linux distributions) is required by softload during the installation process. If the answer is no, install the "ncompress-4.2.4-33.i386.rpm" package from the RH9 installation CDROM2.
2. After the ncompress package is installed into the RH9, we can begin with the installation of IC5033. Run ./SETUP.SH in the !C5033 installation CDROM1. First,choose the installation directory for cadence software. This directory will be assumed as <install_dir> in the following steps. Cancel the suggestion to run softload.
3. Get into the directory <install_dir>/install/bin.lnx86, from where the ./softload can be invoked. Open the the c source code file io_fltr.c, go to line 68.
Change the string "/bin/zcat" to "/usr/bin/uncompress -c"; Add a new line of "#define lnx86" above the line 54 (line 54 is "#ifdef nec_ews"); Add a new line of "#include <errno.h>" above line 33 (line 33 is "#include <signal.h>"). Save this file. And compile it with "gcc -o io_fltr io_fltr.c".
4. Locate and open the c source code file of "process_file.c". Editing line 511, by changing it from "#define PROD_NOS 1280" to "#define ROD_NOS 10000". Save this file and compile it with "gcc -o process_file process_file.c"
5. Locate and open the file "vld". Locate line 424 and 425, which looks like "sort -u +2 -3 $allbundles | sort -n > $sortallbundles" and "sort -u +2 -3 $bundles | sort -n > $sortbundles". Delete the string "+2 -3" so that the new lines look like "sort -u $allbundles | sort -n > $sortallbundles" and "sort -u $bundles | sort -n > $sortbundles". Save this file.
6. Run ./softload and choose "Load available products" in the first menu.Then the program will prompt you give the location of installation CD.
7. By the menu "Where is the installation information?", select the fourth option "Cadence catalog". Decide which products you would like to install. Install plese only the products, for which you have or will have *** s. If your CDROMs are not corrupted, you'll get the products installed(I have tried many times on my own computer, it works quite well).
8. Configure the *** s.
Go into the directory of "<install_dir>/share/ *** ". Run ./configure and do whatever is asked you to do.
9. Configure user terminal preference. As an example for bash, the preference file which located at ./.bashrc should look like:
CDS_ROOT=<install_dir>
CDS_INST_DIR=<install_dir>
CDS_INSTALL_DIR=<install_dir>/tools/dfII/
export CDS_LIC_FILE=$CDS_ROOT/share/ *** / *** .EQUALIZER
export PATH=$CDS_ROOT/tools/bin:$CDS_INSTALL_DIR/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/spectre/bin:$PATH
export CDS_Netlisting_Node Analog
10. Configure the Site customization file (set the Bind key preference when icfb is being loaded). Copy all the file in directory <install_dir>/tools/dfII/sample/local to <install_dir>/tools/dfII/local, and
rename the cdsinit to .cdsinit
11. start cadence by typing icfb& in the bash terminal.
Good luck!




may be this should help you.

regards
amarnath

 

[cmosbjt]

This is already a topic which has been discussed for year. With no doubt, Redhat7.2 is a classic and wide spreaded Linux distribution version, therefore it is compatible with most eda software. However Redhat7.2 is too old and it can not support the newest hardware, for example, USB 2.0. What's more on my computer(KT266A, Athlon XP 2400+), Redhat7.2 even can not be installed, the installation always stops right before the system begins to copy the files. Quite unforturnatly, RedHat 8.0 either won't be installed on my computer.
I spent almost a week to figure out whether it is possible to install the cadence !C5033 in RH9. Finally I find the solution and now this software runs quite well. Because it is a quite time-consuming job to get !C5033 work in RH9, I would like to share my experience with you.
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That's exactly what I've followed. My problems are not mentioned here.

 

[cmosbjt]

___________________________________________________________
|Log:/home/cmosbjt/CDS.log____________________________________|
|Use/reproduction/disclosure is subject to restriction
|set forth at FAR 1252.227-19 or its equivalent.
|Program: @(#)$CDS: icfb.exe versioin 5.0.0 01/07/2003 19:46 (intelibml)$
|Sub version sub-versiion 5.0.0.500.28 (32-bit addresses)

HI, i can not post the picture. the message is showed above. My icfb& halt here.
Any idea? Thanks

Added after 18 minutes:

How about the color problem?
I checked the PCs in my home and office, both of them can only set the display property to 16bit/ 32bit (W2K and Wxp). But if the graphic can support 32bit, why cann't it support 24bit? There must be a way, how?