Cadence Tools - Which Linux do you advise???

[aoshater]

I am starting my graduation project this week on designing Library-based PLL and we were told to acquire Cadence Tools on Linux. Since I have no experience at all with Linux nor IC designing Cadence Tools , my question is :

1) Which Linux Distribution should i get installed?

2) How large should I partition to just fit Linux installation plus Cadence Tools, assuming I'll install all cadence tools.

Thank you,

Ahmad Othman El Shater.

Electronics & Comm. Dept,AinShams University,Egypt

 

[copoler]

It's depended on which version of EDA tools you want to install.
I have installed IC5.0 under redhat8.0 and IC5141 under Fedora Core3.0.All succeeded.
And redhat9.0 is not recommanded.

 

[vlsi_whiz]

I would recomend you install RedHat7.3 or 8 and then install all the Cadence tools. Make the Linux partition larger (15-25GB) than the Windows one if you plan to DualBoot and also install all the Cadence Tools.

 

[Sergiu_Q]

you can find a lot of topics on the linux section https://www.edaboard.com/forums/41/
I use suse 9.0 , and 10gb are enough for the linux and cadence instalation . IC5033 +Aptivia +Assura +LDV+Matlab will use aprox 4.5gb

 

[saho]

I highly recommended that you use Redhat Linux Enterprise 3.0 as your LINUX OS.


regards,
Saho

 

[pinyan]

I give the SWAP 1G,and 12G for EXT3
FC4 and RedHat9 AS with IC5033 all successed

RedHat 7.x can not recognize a lot of new hardware,maybe it's not suit for you

 

[ahmad_abdulghany]

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Rabbena ma3aak..
Your Brother,
Ahmad.

 

[floatice]

i use redhat 8.
and the eda tools include cadence /synopsys/ are work well!
Redhat Linux Enterprise 3.0 is another a good choose.

 

[z81203]

I think 1st Redhat (ES3), 2nd Suse(9.X).

 

[safwatonline]

hello,
this is my first post here .
i was wondering why they dont do a windows version of these tools.

 

[eng_Semi]

If u can get an enterprise edition, it will be the best.

If not, u can use Fedora Core III with IC5.1.41

 

[kevin Park]

If you run IC50, RedHat 8 would be best. RedHat8 or higher version has a problem. It's impossible to interactive with calibre.

 

[welmark]

I use CentOS 3.x and 4.x which are 100% compatible with RHEL 3.x and 4.x. Use 4.x if you have the latest hardware.

 

[Amuro]

I'm using Debian Etch (testing) and IC 5.1.41 without any problem. About the space, you needs 5 GB for Linux+IC suite and some addtional spaces for your working directory. How large is it? depend on your expected jobs.

SWAP+RAM need not to be larger than 3 GB since Cadence 32-bit can't allocate memory more than that i.e. if you have 1 GB RAM, it's useless to set SWAP more than 2 GB. You can also set SWAP smaller than that, but if you simulate very detailed transient, you may encounter the not enough memory problem.

 

[ASICK]

isuggest use larger partition like 30GB+ as if ur circuits gets big, so does the transient data space, i use close to 3GB for each simulation run for ADC

 

[tony_wu_ad]

I use the redhat 7.2 and the space is 20G

It is depand on you job, I just run a small circuit

 

[jutek]

Cadence is not everything, could you tell me how to get any design kit? even 1um

regards

 

[Amuro]

Cadence is not everything, could you tell me how to get any design kit? even 1um

regards

You can check NCSU design kit

 

[ahmad_abdulghany]

Please can anyone tell me how to get any version of AMS design kit ? I mean any free version even if been uncomplete design kit (demo) just to try to use tools and learn it practically..

 

[Amuro]

AMS design kit is not a freely available design kit. You have to sign an NDA form in order to use it, however, this process is free of charge.