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XIL2CDS: How to obtain the Cadence Concept board-level integration tool?


Record #2943

Product Family: Software

Product Line: Cadence

Product Part: xil2cds

Problem Title:
XIL2CDS: How to obtain the Cadence Concept board-level integration tool?


Problem Description:
Urgency: standard

General Description:
The command-line program, XIL2CDS, the Cadence Concept board-level
integration tool to allow chip-level design into a board level
schematic.

Cadence Design Systems ships and supports XIL2CDS.

Note: Install the CONCEPT2XIL patch before installing the XIL2CDS
       patch. See (Xilinx Solution 2766).


Solution 1:

The latest version adds support for the 4000X family.

For Solaris:

ftp://ftp.cadence.com/patches/97B/pic/sun4v/xilM1BA97.02-s002sun4v.t.ZInternet Link

For Sun4:

ftp://ftp.cadence.com/patches/97B/pic/sun4/xilM1BA97.02-s002sun4.t.ZInternet Link

For HP/UX:

ftp://ftp.cadence.com/patches/97B/pic/hppa/xilM1BA97.02-s002hppa.t.ZInternet Link

For RS6000:

ftp://ftp.cadence.com/patches/97B/pic/ibmrs/xilM1BA97.02-s002ibmrs.t.ZInternet Link

This archive should then be copied to and extracted in your
Cadence install directory. The netlister gets installed to

    $CDS_INST_DIR/tools/pic/picdesigner/bin

Add this directory to your path variable in your system environment.




End of Record #2943 - Last Modified: 12/02/98 16:22

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