GoldenGate Tools 2014_01 Release Notes

anyblockeesof wiki users, eesof keysight, external supported, keysight to access the full on line product documentation, click https //archbee team jgkt8dcn atlassian net/wiki/display/ggtools201401/home anyblock you should be logged in the space to access http //edadocs software keysight com/display/ggtools201401/home documents and links to more detailed information please login using your knowledge center login credentials goldengate tools 2014 01 is designed for use with goldengate 2013 10 or subsequent goldengate releases until a future goldengate tools version becomes available it is a subset of a complete ads installation and enables certain tools and capabilities that are part of the ads platform for use within virtuoso it allows users to use momentum to simulate layout views within cadence virtuoso to produce em models for use within circuit simulation tools such as goldengate launch the 3d viewer to view momentum results launch ads data display from within cadence virtuoso when the goldengate simulator is selected run system testbench simulations within goldengate by providing a ptolemy runtime environment export layout from momentum virtuoso for 3d simulation in empro the 3d information is created from the layer definitions and the substrate users can enable these capabilities by either pointing to an ads installation pointing to a goldengate tools installation (smaller footprint) in both cases, the following environment variables must point to a valid eesof license file goldengate license file ads license file what's new in goldengate tools 2014 01 goldengate tools 2014 01 is designed for use with goldengate 2013 10 or subsequent goldengate releases until a future goldengate tools version becomes available goldengate tools 2012 08 and ads 2012 08 are no longer supported on 32 bit linux os versions this is true even though goldengate 2012 10 will support 32 bit linux versions after goldengate 2012 10, neither goldengate nor goldengate tools will support 32 bit linux versions license licensing goldengate tools 2014 01 requires a) version 2014 01 of the eesof eda licensing software, b) version 3 1 codewords to run, and c) the licensing server software, lmgrd and agileesofd, to be upgraded to at least the same versions as what are included in eesof eda licensing software 2014 01 goldengate tools 2014 01 will not start if any of these requirements is not met refer to the http //edadocs software keysight com/display/ggtools201401/license codeword version compatibility table in the eesof eda license tools version 2014 01, licensing vendor daemon ( agileesofd ) is upgraded to sync up with flexnet fnp 11 11 1 2 version of flex license manager ( lmgrd ) goldengate tools installer for the windows platform will automatically set up these two new license server daemons by default for the local node locked license users; for linux, you need to follow the http //edadocs software keysight com/display/ggtools201401/setting up licenses on linux and solaris instruction to complete the licensing configuration process for more details, refer to http //edadocs software keysight com/display/ggtools201401/licensing (for administrators) a real time and systematic license setup troubleshooting utility, diagnose , is added to the license manager tool this utility produces a detailed health report of a user's currently configured licensing environment a my support id utility is added to the license manager tool to allow a user to retrieve his/her support id required to contact keysight eesof tech support enhancements and improvements for simplified and robust licensing, pjc (per job control) licenses are no longer checked out by goldengate tools 2014 01 the license setup wizard no longer requires administrator privilege on windows to setup license files administrator privilege is only required to setup the windows service that will automatically start the license server upon system restart rather than on eesof application startup issues addressed licensing on windows, a possible administrator privilege issue preventing the automatic restarting of the flexfnp license server program, lmgrd after the pc comes out of the hibernation mode has been fixed the license setup wizard will automatically restart the server without any user intervention known issues licensing the new license server software packaged in the eesof eda license tools version 2014 01 does not work on suse 10 platform use suse 11 or rhel 5 or 6 instead as your linux license server machine unable to install flex 10 driver if flex 9 dongle is already plugged into a machine workaround before installing a flex 10 driver for the first time, unplug the flex 9 dongle there is a known flexera fnp issue, whereby mixing node locked codewords and floating codewords in one license file can result in a) remote simulations not working or b) a second local simulation not working in case the license is node locked and also has incorrect version workaround it is strongly recommended that you do not mix node locked codewords and floating codewords in one license file nor in any configuration that ends up with node locked codewords and floating codewords both available on the same server in other words, put the node locked license and the floating license on different servers, and point to the respective one based on what you need to run additionally, we also recommend you to remove expired codewords, to separate out the new and the old versions of codewords into different files and different servers, and to point to the respective one based on what you need to run on the linux platform, license file needs to be correctly specified before starting goldengate tools without that being set correctly, goldengate tools would not start not specifying the tcp/ip port for the license server during license setup may lead to unexpected behavior and/or license checkout failure on the windows platform we strongly recommend you to always explicitly specify the tcp/ip port associated with each license server a node locked and floating bundle operating on linux cannot be shared between products using eda license tools version 2014 01 and 11 9 0 0 or earlier when run at the same time the "check in failed" message occurs in the license activity log occasionally can be ignored; the license mentioned in this message is actually properly returned license setup wizard does not remove any previous user configured flex windows license service installed using flexnet's lmtools workaround you must remove the previous user configured windows license service via lmtools run the lmtools exe from c \program files\agilent\eesof license tools\bin to invoke the lmtools utility the lmtools utility window is displayed in the service/license file tab, check the configuration using services option all user configured flex windows license services will be listed select the service you wish to remove select the config services tab and click the remove service button to remove the service to ensure that the license service or lmgrd is running, click view log a log window appears that confirms whether agileesofd and lmgrd are up and running while running multiple versions of prior goldengate tools releases together, set maximum bundle usage=on in your environment so that all of them will use the same method to check out licenses otherwise, you might receive an error message, "licensed number of users already reached" on some windows 7 machines, when more than one definition of an ethernet adapter exists (duplicates), license checkouts may appear to hang up workaround disable the duplicate network card definitions in your network settings control panel > network and internet > network connections this issue has been acknowledged by flexera and they have created a bug report (sioc 000103097) if a license server is configured with two license versions, that is, version 2 8 and 2 9 node locked license files, the license server may crash workaround you should combine the two license files into one file, instead of using them separately for lsf style distributed simulations, in case of windows, ensure that the path points to the $hpeesof dir/eesof license tools/$ directory that corresponds to the eesof release being used this needs to be done in order to ensure that the proper version of the flexera utilities (like lmutil ) gets picked up in the path before any older in compatible versions (that may also be installed on a users’ system ) license setup wizard ( aglmwizard exe ), which is used to set up and record the license path would not work if you already have an environment variable set for license file workaround you can use license file variable to point to license file or refer to http //edadocs software keysight com/display/ggtools201401/licensing (for administrators) the license setup wizard will exit or not properly configure a license server, if the server has all of its licenses currently in use workaround wait for a license on the server to become available as you normally would before launching the product if goldengate tools does not start after you reboot your 64 bit windows computer, and a license denial message is displayed, then it might be caused by a spurious registry entry check to see if registry entry hkey local machine\software\flexlm license manager\eesof eda license server exists; if it does, remove it and restart goldengate tools unable to set license in case unicode characters are used either in path or license file name because the flex license service does not support these characters the product selector tool will be unable to display the license server status properly when connected to older license server workaround upgrade your license server to the latest version ggtools and dynamic link cadence ic 5 1 41 (and other cadence versions without 64 bit mps libraries) will not work for ggtools and dynamic link the rfdemp (ggtools) and idfmp (dynamic link) executable files are linked to cadence 64 bit libraries only cadence versions with 64 bit em sh, mpsc sh, cdscommon sh, and sman sh libraries are supported supported cadence versions are listed in $hpeesof dir/idf/supported cadence versions txt workaround use ads 2013 06, 2012 08 or earlier versions of ads for ggtools or dynamic link when using cadence ic 5 1 41 alternatively, cadence ic 5 1 41 libraries can be converted to cadence ic 6 1 4 or newer versions to use ggtools and dynamic link in ads 2014 01 goldengate tools and corresponding ads versions goldengate tools version ads version 2013 06 2012 08 2012 08 2011 10 2011 10 2011 05 2011 05 2011 01 2011 01 4 4 0 2009u1 4 3 4 2009 + selected fixed issues 4 3 2 2009 4 3 0 2008 update 2 + hotfix 20081008 rfde momentum 332 401 4 2 2 2008 update 1 4 1 2 2006 update 1 goldengate tools and goldengate version/license compatibility goldengate goldengate tools version eesof license version eesof codeword version 2012 10 2012 08 2012 08 3 0 platform support for goldengate tools supported platforms (64 bit ) native build platform (64 bit) platforms no longer supported redhat enterprise 5 redhat enterprise 6 novell suse sles 10 novell suse sles 11 redhat enterprise 5 solaris 32 bit versions of linux redhat enterprise linux 4 novell suse sles 9 cadence ic support for goldengate tools supported cadence versions (32/64 bit) primary test cadence version (64 bit) cadence versions no longer supported ic 5 1 41 ic 6 1 3 ic 6 1 4 ic 6 1 5 ic 6 1 6 ic5 10 41 6 140 ic06 1 5 505 ic 6 1 0 ic 6 1 2