HIT-Kit v4.00: Cadence Installation Instructions

 

General Information

  • Cadence HIT-Kit v4.00 is qualified for Cadence IC 6.1.2 ISR10
  • Supported operating systems are Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat EL 3.0 and EL 4.0
  • All tarfiles are encrypted
  • A license is required to install and to use the HIT-Kit features

 

Generate License Key

  • Log on to our technical web server at http://asic.austriamicrosystems.com/cgi-sbin/cis/amslmd.cgi
  • This service is only available to registered users. If you are not already registered, register at http://asic.austriamicrosystems.com
  • Select appropriate HIT-Kit version
  • Select available technologies
  • Enter the host name of your license server
  • Enter the host-id of your license server 
    (e.g. the command lmhostid can be used to find out the host-id)
  • Download license file
  • Save received license file to disk
  • Start installation of HIT-Kit as usual (see detailed description below)

 

Download the HIT-Kit

  • If you not already downloaded the installation packages, please download them from the HIT-Kit 4.00 Download page .
  • If you download the Mixed-Signal HIT-Kit, please make sure that you also download the corresponding "digital" package.
  • Extract the downloaded packages into a temporary directory.

 

Installation of the Cadence HIT-Kit

The HIT-Kit is to be installed by the library manager.

First create a root installation directory:

  • mkdir ams_root  (e.g.: mkdir /disk/prg/hk_4.00)
  • cd ams_root

Change to the temporary directory where you unpacked the downloaded packages and start the installation by entering the command:

  • ./ams_install
  • Prompt asks you to enter an ams_root directory
  • Prompt asks you to enter the path to the license file
  • All files specified in the license file will now be installed in entered ams_root directory
  • File permissions of executables will be checked
  • The installed libraries will be configured by the script INSTALL_AMS_CDS

 

Configuration of the HIT-Kit

After successful installation set up the environment variable $AMS_DIR . This command may be placed in your local .cshrc file or a generic start-up script so that it is always defined.

  • setenv AMS_DIR ams_root_directory
    (e.g.: setenv AMS_DIR /disk/prg/hk_4.00)

For a correct configuration of the user environment and to start designing with Cadence see also Cadence: Usage
 

 

Start the HIT-Kit License Server

  • Log on to your license server
  • Save received license file amslmd.lic to disk
  • Start license server:
    $AMS_DIR/Flexlm/v9.5/<os>/lmgrd -c <absolute path to amslmd.lic -l <absolute path to log file>
  • Check the license server status:
    $AMS_DIR/Flexlm/v9.5/<os>/lmutil lmstat -c <absolute path to amslmd.lic> 

 

Note: amslmd requires FlexLM 9.5. Therefore use lmgrd and lmutil which are included in the HIT-Kit. Using the Cadence license management tools might fail for the HIT-Kit licensing system.

 

Starting Cadence

To ensure correct operation of the HIT-Kit within the Cadence environment the Cadence software should be invoked using the script ams_cds which is fully described in the next section - HIT-Kit Startup Script.

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