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Cadence 2009/2010 Release
The Microelectronics Support Centre at RAL is pleased to announce the availability of the EUROPRACTICE Cadence 2009/2010 upgrade release. Details of the products included within the release can be seen via the "Software List - 2009/2010 Release" quick link above.
Information about this release, and how it can be downloaded from the Microelectronics Support Centre's FTP server, have been e-mailed to EUROPRACTICE Representatives at all EUROPRACTICE/Cadence sites. Users who are yet to download the new release should contact their EUROPRACTICE Representative for details on how to download. In the case of difficulties, please contact the Microelectronics Support Centre: enquiries@msc.rl.ac.uk
Cadence Low-Cost Classroom Teaching Licences
The Microelectronics Support Centre at RAL is pleased to announce the introduction of EUROPRACTICE Cadence Low-Cost Classroom Teaching Licences.
EUROPRACTICE Cadence Classroom Teaching licences are intended for institutes to do mass class teaching of their students, in cases where they have too few regular EUROPRACTICE non-commercial research and training license seats for that purpose.
The Classroom Teaching licences will be subject to all the usage restrictions of the regular EUROPRACTICE Cadence licences but, in addition, no research use of any sort will be allowed. The Classroom Teaching licences must also be located on a separate license server from the regular EUROPRACTICE Cadence licences.
Please click here for full details including information on how to order.
The Cadence portfolio comprises the following packages:
The IC Package comprises high-performance tools for digital, analogue and mixed-signal IC design, down to the 65nm node and below. For digital design it includes logic simulation tools for VHDL, Verilog, SystemC and SystemVerilog; Specman for verification test-bench automation with constrained random stimuli; tools for formal property proof; Enterprise Manager for management of the complete verification process against a verification plan. There are also a number of verification IP packages for industry-standard bus and communication protocols, some for simulation-based verification and others for formal. SoC Encounter provides the synthesis/place-and-route flow for digital IC implementation, the Conformal tools offer logical equivalence checking and the screening of timing constraints, prior to synthesis, and Encounter Timing System is run for sign-off static timing analysis. Encounter Test allows test insertion, ATPG and diagnostics on test results. These digital IC design flows support multi-mode, multi-corner design and a range of power management techniques through the Common Power Format.
Analogue and mixed-signal IC design are addressed through the Virtuoso platform, which is now available in this Package both on the traditional CDB database and on the new OpenAccess database (OA data-model 4). Circuit simulation is supported through Spectre and UltraSim (fast-spice-type simulator) and Verilog-AMS and VHDL-AMS simulation is provided by AMS Designer. Layout generation is supported at a wide variety of levels of automation. The high frequency behaviour of layout structures can be simulated and verified by RF Designer, which is a full-wave, planar electromagnetic field-solver.
Physical verification and post-layout analysis of all these styles of IC design is available through the Assura, QRC extractor and VoltageStorm families of tools.
The SYSTEMS Package comprises tools for advanced PCB and IC Packaging flows. Design entry is supported through traditional schematics, HDLs or spreadsheet input. Physical and electrical constraints can be captured in the Constraint Manager for subsequent implementation in the layout. Digital simulation is provided through the same set of simulation tools as in the IC Package and analogue/mixed-signal simulation is available through the Allegro AMS Simulator (PSpice - Windows only). The Package also includes power distribution integrity analysis, EMControl and signal integrity analysis, pre-layout for constraint setting and post-layout for verification. Libraries of symbols, simulation models and footprints, for a range of standard parts for PCB design, are included and these can be supplemented through built-in library creation and validation tools.
The COMBINED IC & SYSTEMS Package comprises all of the tools in the IC Package, as well as all of the tools in the SYSTEMS Package.
The PCB STUDIO Package provides an alternative PCB design capability for Windows XP users. It includes design entry through OrCAD Capture with CIS, board layout through Allegro PCB (not OrCAD Layout), routing in 6 routing layers through SPECCTRA Auto/Interactive Router and analogue/mixed-signal simulation through PSpice A/D with the Advanced Analysis Option. Entry-level interconnect analysis is also included.
One free-of-charge OPTIONAL Package is being offered with the EUROPRACTICE/Cadence 2009/2010 Release, but only for licensees of the Combined IC & Systems Package. This covers both RF System-in-Package (SiP) design and Digital SiP design (as in the 2008/2009 Optional Package #1). Licences for the products in the Optional Package will be generated on the same servers and with the same number of seats as your existing Combined Package seats. So there is no need to give any separate licensing information for the Optional Package.
Please refer to the software list below for details of the products comprising the Cadence 2008/2009 Release.
Please refer to the software list below for details of the products comprising the Cadence 2008/2009 Release.
The SoftMEMS Xplorer product provides Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) modeling and layout generation capabilities for the Cadence suite. SoftMEMS integrates existing third party design tools into one common design environment. The key elements of this design environment are:
The EUROPRACTICE Software Service place bulk orders with Vendors monthly. In order to be included on the monthly order, Institute orders to EUROPRACTICE must be received at RAL by no later than the 25th day of each month.
Detailed instructions on how to place a EUROPRACTICE software order, how to complete the software order forms and the financial procedures that must be followed are given in the Software Order Procedures.
New software orders, additional keys and rehost keys will be requested monthly.
The software licences provide floating nodes on any combination of machine types supported by Cadence and the EUROPRACTICE Software Service.
PLEASE ensure that you read the End User Agreement Notes before downloading the End User Agreements.
EUROPRACTICE member organisations wishing to gain access to the Cadence SourceLink Knowledge Base will also need to complete two copies of an Amendment to their End User Agreement (EUA):
PLEASE read the Notes on Cadence EUA Amendment for SourceLink before downloading.
Changes to Maintenance arrangements
Please also note that, starting from the 2008/2009 Release, the Cadence software has been delivered from a download server here at RAL, rather than from physical CDs. In addition, EUROPRACTICE member institutions, ordering software, no longer have to specify which platform(s) they wish to use and their maintenance charge no longer depends on that platform selection, in the way that it did in earlier releases.
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The EUROPRACTICE Software Service is managed by the Microelectronics Support Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.
You can contact the EUROPRACTICE Software Service by email: enquiries@msc.rl.ac.uk Last modified: December 10, 2009. |