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CMC Microsystems
Product & Service Announcement
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PSA.calibre.2009.4_31.27.20100330
Date: March 30, 2010
To: STC System Administrators
CALIBRE 2009.4_31.27 SOFTWARE
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This Product & Service Announcement (PSA) includes information on:
A. Features of This Release
B. Pre-Release Testing
C. Distribution Requirements
D. Download Instructions
E. Installation Instructions
F. User Instructions
G. Removal Instructions
H. Getting Support
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A. Features of This Release
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This PSA provides instructions on obtaining and installing the 2009.4
version of the Siemens Calibre verification tool. Calibre is
the tool that designers are required to use in certain design kits for
LVS (layout versus schematic) and DRC (design rule check) in order to
qualify designs for fabrication through CMC. For more information about
features of the Calibre tool that is available through Mentor’s Higher
Education Program, see http://www.mentor.com/company/higher_ed/index.cfm
CMC’s primary support will now be for the Calibre 2009.4 tool. CMC
will no longer support the Calibre 2008.3 tool.
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B. Pre-release Testing
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CMC has tested the installation and developed the documentation
provided below to facilitate this process.
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C. Distribution Requirements
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This release is available to Canadian universities that have signed
the following agreements:
Technology Usage Agreement
Siemens Higher Education Program (HEP) License Agreement
Contact Linda Dougherty, Licensing Administrator, CMC Microsystems,
at dougherty@cmc.ca and 613.530.4787, for information about
the License Agreement.
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D. Download Instructions
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The Calibre 2009.4 tool is designed to be installed on the Supported
Technology Configuration (STC) disk provided by CMC to university
Members that are major users of CMC-supported tools and kits.
The tools may only be retrieved from CMC’s SFTP server by the
authorized system administrators who maintain the STC at universities.
UNIX> sftp CMC_Login_name@sftp.cmc.ca
Connecting to sftp.cmc.ca…
password:
sftp> cd /CMC/tools/mentor
sftp> ls
… …
sftp> get calibre_2009.4_31.27.tar.gz
get setenv.calibre.csh
sftp> bye
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E. Installation Instructions
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NOTES: The Calibre 2009.4 release requires about 2.3 GB of disk space.
You will need at least Solaris 8 to run the Calibre 2009.4 tool
(Solaris 2.6 or lower is not supported).
1. Logon as cmcmgr.
2. Move the zipped file into the Siemens tools directory
(/CMC/tools/mentor). If this directory does not exist you
will have to create it by entering:
cd /CMC/tools/mentor
Then move the file by entering:
mv calibre_2009.4_31.27.tar.gz /CMC/tools/mentor
3. Uncompress/unzip the stream by entering:
/bin/gunzip calibre_2009.4_31.27.tar.gz
4. After you have uncompressed the file, untar the file by typing:
/usr/local/bin/tar xfp calibre_2009.4_31.27.tar
Note that this will create a calibre_2009.4_31.27 directory
containing the Calibre software.
5. Once this is accomplished, create a symbolic link to the
calibre version as follows:
cd /CMC/tools/mentor
ln -s calibre_2009.4_31.27 calibre
6. Delete the tar file with the following **GNU** command:
cd /CMC/tools/mentor
rm -f calibre_2009.4_31.27.tar
7. Move the setenv.calibre.csh into the directory /CMC/scripts
mv setenv.calibre.csh /CMC/scripts
8. Installation is now complete.
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F. User Instructions
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1. Before starting Cadence, type the following in your Unix terminal:
source /CMC/scripts/setenv.calibre.csh
2. Viewing documentation for Calibre 2009.4.
The most relevant documentation for the general use of Calibre for DRC
can be found at:
/CMC/tools/mentor/calibre/CMCdir
Should you need to dig more deeply into the software’s operation, several
of the more commonly used Calibre usage manuals are aliased within
the file sourced in step 1, and can be accessed as follows (assuming
you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed):
calbr_doc – opens the user guide (calbr_ver_user.pdf)
svrf_doc – opens the manual of rule formats (svrf_ur.pdf)
calbrdfm_doc – opens the DFM guide (calbr_dfm_gd.pdf)
xrc_doc – opens the xRC manual (xrc_user.pdf)
In general, the pdf documentation is found at:
/CMC/tools/mentor/calibre/docs/pdfdocs
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G. Removal Instructions
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If at any time you need to remove the Calibre 2009.4 tool, the following
command will remove it from your STC disk:
NOTE: The following rm -rf command has potential for irreversible damage!
rm -rf /CMC/tools/mentor/calibre_2009.4_31.27
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H. Getting Support
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If you have any questions about obtaining or installing this release,
please contact CMC using the Request for Support web form:
https://www1.cmc.ca/clients/support_request.php
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