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CSE 493/593 Fall 2024
Cadence Setup

Part IA: Accessing Cadence software from on-campus UBIT systems:

1.    To use Cadence Virtuoso from a UBIT system on campus, login using your UBIT credentials.

2.    Open a new terminal follow the steps in part II.

Part IB: Accessing Cadence software from personally owned systems:

1. For personally owned systems, Click Install X2Go client on the X2Go downloads page, download and run the setup file.

2. Download and install Cisco AnyConnect VPN client from UBIT softwares and connect to UBVPN. You do not need to connect via VPN when you’re connected to on-campus WiFi.

3.    Follow the instructions under Connecting in the webpage http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/software/x2go depending on the OS you have.

4.    Whenever you want to open Cadence, you would click on the shortcut you created in the previous step, and select Terminal.

5.    From this terminal, follow the steps in part II. For problems logging into your account, please email senshelp@buffalo.edu

Part II: Setting up Cadence Virtuoso

1.    On the terminal, type the following to set up Cadence Virtuoso for the first time:

/util/cadence/virtuoso-493 --setup

 

2.    You should see that the Virtuoso setup complete.

3.    Open Cadence Virtuoso with the following command:

/util/cadence/virtuoso-493 &

 

 

4.    This should bring up the Cadence Command Interpreter Window (CIW) and the Library Manager, as shown below:

Command Interpreter Window (CIW):

 

Library Manager:

Exiting Cadence Virtuoso:

Exit Cadence Virtuoso by clicking File->Exit in the CIW.

 

 

Part III: schematic, layout, extracted became read-only! What to do?

5.    Go to cse493_593

cd ~/cse493_593/

6.    Go to the certain folder you want to unlock, for example 'inverter' is the library you created. Some files inside are locked(read-only).

cd inverter

find . -name "*.cdslck" | xargs rm -rf

find . -name "*sch.oa.cdslck.*" | xargs rm -rf

find . -name "*sch.oa-" | xargs rm -rf

 

Summary:

To summarize, after the initial setup, every time you need to use Cadence remotely from your personal computer, do the following:

1.    Connect to UBVPN

2.    Open X2Go terminal

3.    At the prompt, type the following:

use cadence

virtuoso-493 &

 

Be careful:

Never close the application/schematic window/terminal by just hitting the button. Always Quit or Exit

If you do not exit the application properly, you will not be able to access your design or even lose designs!