cdsDM

Cadence Virtuoso Design Management System

What is cdsDM?

cdsDM is design management system using Git.

Installation and setup

• Clone this repository

• Add to your environment
  for the bourne shell
  export CDSDM_PATH="{cloned_dir}/cdsdm"
  export CDS_WORKAREA=$CDSDM_PATH

  .cdsinit
  add the following line to your .cdsinit
  load( strcat(getShellEnvVar("CDSDM_PATH") "/init.il") )

Initial setup

• Git init
  create empty shared git repository in your local or github, gitlab, gitolite, gitbucket, etc.
  e.g.) git init --bare --shared {remote_repository_path}/myLib.git

• Init (execute only by owner)
  configure required files for the cadence library to an empty git repository.
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Setup=>Init...
  enter an empty git repository in the repository field and click OK.
  e.g.) Repository: {remote_repository_path}/myLib.git

• Clone (execute other members)
  clone library in local directory.
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Clone...
  enter remote repository and click OK.
  e.g.) Repository: {remote_repository_path}/myLib.git Options: --depth 1

How to use

• Checkout
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Checkout
  to edit cellviews, you check out library.
  library is read-only until you check it out for editing.

• Checkin
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Checkin
  when you check and save all cellviews, you checkin library.
  library returns to read-only.

• Cancel Checkout
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Cancel Checkout
  discard editing cellviews and cancel checkout

• Push
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Push
  push the modified cellviews to the remote repository.

• Pull
  Library Manager=>cdsDM=>Pull
  pull the updated cellviews from the remote repository.