GoldenGate Tools 2017 Release Notes

goldengate tools is designed for use with goldengate or subsequent goldengate releases until a future goldengate tools version becomes available it 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 pointing to an ads installation there is no longer a separate goldengate tools installer the following environment variables must point to a valid eesof license file goldengate license file ads license file what's new momentum substrate editor new an ltd substrate definition can be generated by importing a synopsys® itf (interconnect technology format) file together with the cadence technology file, an itf file provides most information to create a substrate file new an ltd substrate definition can be generated by importing a cadence® ict (inter connect technology) file together with the cadence technology file, an ict file provides most information to create a substrate file enhanced creates an ltd substrate file from a tsmc plain text or encrypted ircx file conductor resistance temperature coefficients and indie table metal bias data is additionally read from the ircx file new for a conductor to model its temperature dependence new for a conductor to model the effect this is the effect whereby the actual conductor width depends on the drawn width and space to other conductors performance improvement of the substrate computation which runs on multiple threads now new simulation temperature the conductor resistance adjusts for temperature enhanced overlap extraction considers lateral overlap between sidewalls of thick conductors this improves the accuracy for momcap simulations with default mesh settings it is no longer required to use very dense meshes issues addressed momentum an issue with short vias giving negative inductance has been fixed an issue with the substrate generation of a tsmc 16nm substrate has been fixed it could cause unphysical results you must recompute the substrate! from the momentum virtuoso window, in the simulation options dialog, select to ‘stop after calculating substrate' a simulation with this option set will force momentum to recompute the substrate known issues 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 5 or newer versions to use ggtools and dynamic link in ads 2014 01 ads 2017 and goldengate version/license compatibility goldengate ads version eesof license version eesof codeword version 2017 2017 2017 01 2017 01 platform support for goldengate tools supported platforms (64 bit ) native build platform (64 bit) platforms no longer supported redhat linux rhel6 redhat linux rhel7 suse linux sles11 suse linux sles12 redhat linux rhel6 32 bit versions of linux redhat linux rhel5 cadence ic support for goldengate tools supported cadence versions (64 bit) primary test cadence version (64 bit) cadence versions no longer supported ic 5 1 41 ic 6 1 5 ic 6 1 6 ic 6 1 7 ic5 10 41 6 140 ic06 1 5 505 ic 6 1 0 ic 6 1 2 ic 6 1 3 ic 6 1 4