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Locating PCell Designer

Hello,

I'm quite new to Cadence and I recently started a research position in my university related to analog design. Because I am expected to self start it's been a little difficult to navigate Cadence, and to do my work I need to use PCell Designer. Unfortunately I cannot locate it, is it a separate GUI? or is it integrated in another tool? I can see PCell in my Tools dropdown, but as far as I know that brings me to the mostly depreciated graphical PCell window, and a place to write SKILL code.

I would really appreciate some help to get started, Thank you!

Dominik

0 Andrew Beckett over 1 year ago
Dominik,

You would need to download the PCD25 (latest hotfix) release from http://downloads.cadence.com and there's a video on installing it here: Installing Cadence PCell Designer (you'll also find other videos in the channel on the right hand side with that link which give introductions).

There's a couple of rapid adoption kits too:

Generating a Layout Parameterized Cell using PCell Designer - Basic

Generating a Schematic Parameterized Cell using PCell Designer

Plus the reference manual can be found in the Custom IC Design section of the Product Manuals page.

Andrew
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0 dandadom over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Thank you Andrew,

I appreciate the help!
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