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Basic Libraries Not Showing up

David0618

Dear Community,

I just started trying out Cadence Virtuoso. I am having trouble including basic libraries like AnalogLib - please see screenshot below: 

How would I go about adding the libraries?

Thanks.

  • Andrew Beckett

    Add these lines into your cds.lib :

    DEFINE analogLib $(inst_root_with:tools/dfII/bin/virtuoso)/tools/dfII/etc/cdslib/artist/analogLib
    DEFINE basic $(inst_root_with:tools/dfII/bin/virtuoso)/tools/dfII/etc/cdslib/basic

    or add:

    INCLUDE $(inst_root_with:tools/dfII/bin/virtuoso)/share/cdssetup/cds.lib

    which includes a reasonable set of default libraries.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • David0618

    Andrew,

    This worked! Thanks so much. I must have missed this in the documentation somewhere - would you happen to remember which section I might find this in, out of curiosity? I am poring over "Library Manager -> Help -> Contents" now, but if you happen to recall the appropriate chapter, please let me know.

    David

  • Andrew Beckett

    David,

    I'm not sure this is exactly covered in the documentation. It certainly wouldn't be under the library manager (I would have thought) because it's just a specific example.

    If you start in a fresh directory (no cds.lib) and create a library in Virtuoso, it will create a local cds.lib with:

    SOFTINCLUDE /export/home/apps/IC617_isr/share/cdssetup/cds.lib
    DEFINE mylib /export/home/myusername/support/testit/mylib

    The first path is essentially what I suggested you include, but I added the $(inst_root_with...) syntax to make it relocatable. If you search in cdnshelp for inst_root_with you'll find info on that syntax in the Cadence Application Infrastructure Guide.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • David0618
    Andrew, I found the Cadence Application Infrastructure User Guide you mentioned - I will look into it. Thanks again.

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