AMS  v3.60 Design Kit - Synthesis

These are the commands necessary to set up the Synopsys and/or Cadence Silicon Ensemble
environment in order to compile, synthesize, and place-and-route a design with the  C35
process from AMS.

Chose the set of commands to use according to which domain the computer is  running on,
'efd' refers to the computers in the basement and 'tde' those at the department.

Remember that the tools will only work in the window in which the setup has been run. For
most of the tools it is also required the the current directory stays the same.


Synopsys v2004.06

The environment is initialized and some variables are defined with this command. A couple of
setup files will be copied into the current directory and some libraries are also created to match
the environment described in the laboratories.

  efd> inittde ams360

  tde> source /usr/local-tde/cad1/synopsys/v2004.06/ams_setup


No Silicon Ensemble setup yet !!

Silicon Ensemble v5.4

The first command defines the environment so that all executables can be located and the second
will copy some setup-files. An empty directory is recommended. At least it should NOT be a
directory in which Cadence dfII has been run.

    efd> inittde  se54
    efd> $AMS_DIR/build_se_dir

And from the department

    tde> source ~amslibs/v3.60/ams_setup
    tde> $AMS_DIR/build_se_dir

The 'dbs'-directory, in which SE stores its database,  can grow wery big and it might be a good
idea to relocate it to some temporary area by creating a soft link f.i.

> rmdir  dbs
> mkdir  -p  /var/tmp/<uid>/dbs        # Replace <uid> with username to avoid collision
> ln  -s  /var/tmp/<uid>/dbs

The drawback with this method is that 'dbs' now only exists on the computer on which it was cre-
ated and is not accessible over the net.