Installation Procedure for Cadence IC610/IC5141 on Ubuntu

Installation Guide:

Logging as root:

su -

Password:> enter the root password here

krmn is user

1)rm -fr /Cadence

2)mkdir /home/krmn/CadenceInstall/

3)cp -r /media/cdrom/Cadence_IC5141/* /home/krmn/CadenceInstall/

4)cd /home/krmn/CadenceInstall/CDROM1/

5)./SETUP.SH

6)Specify path of install directory [OR type [ENTER] to exit]:

/Cadence

7)-Directory /Cadence does not exist. Create? [y/n]:

y

8)Do you want to start softload? [y/n]:

y

9)The available options are:

1 (Load Available Products)

10)You must now identify where the CD-ROM is mounted:

1 (Local (mounted to this machine))

11)Specify the CD-ROM mount point:

2 (Other)

press enter to accept to continue

12)Type your choice (a,n,p,1-3,2 5 9 ...):

a (All of the above)

13)Are your selections correct? [y/n]

y

14)Verify your installation. The available options are:

2 (List Installed Products)

15)-Specify the operating system of the products:

3 (lnx86)

-Now you can quit the Cadence IC 5.1.44 installation

q (Quit)

16a)Rename cadence_license_full.dat to license.dat

16b)copy license.dat to /Cadence/share/license

17)cd /Cadence/

18)ln -s /Cadence/tools.lnx86 /Cadence/tools

19)open bashrc and add these lines:

export CDS_ROOT=/Cadence/

export CDS_INSTALL_PATH=$CDS_ROOT/tools/dfII/

export CDS_LIC_FILE=$CDS_ROOT/share/license/license.dat

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$CDS_ROOT/tools/lib:$CDS_INSTALL_PATH/lib

export PATH=$PATH:$CDS_ROOT/tools/bin:$CDS_INSTALL_PATH/bin:$CDS_ROOT/tools/spectre/bin

export LANG=C

export CDS_Netlisting_Mode=Analog

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steps:

1) open terminal switch to super user i.e su enter the root password.

2) go to directory where you have stored the installations go to base CDROM1.

3) type ./SETUP.SH , now it will ask you to set up installscape say yes to it give a directory path for it and install that. (usually /home/username/installscape or /opt/installscape)

4) now you should see installscape running from there choose install from media, give the path where your CDROM1 is located, press next.

5) you should see select all products, press next; choose the location where you want to install press next. (usually /home/username/cadence/ic5141 or /opt/cadence/ic5141)

6) installation should begin and should complete depending upon the speed of your computer.

7) thats it then setup the .bashrc and cds.lib file and license.dat file and reboot the system.

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/bin/icfb: 97: cds_plat: not found

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/share/oa/bin/sysname: 328: /bin/awk: not found

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/bin/32bit/icfb.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open

shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/bin/icfb: 97: cds_plat: not found

==> check whether you have installed csh

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/share/oa/bin/sysname: 328: /bin/awk: not found

==>make a awk link in /bin using this command

Quote:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awk

/usr/local/cadence/IC610/tools/dfII/bin/32bit/icfb.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open

shared object file: No such file or directory

==>make a link libelf.so.1, first find available libelf useing

Quote:

ls -l libelf*

some file name will show up, then make a link to it using

Quote:

ln -s /use/lib/ /usr/lib/libelf.so.1

\e Display :0.0 Error "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"

Add following to your xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "Disable"

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