GoldenGate Tools 2016.01 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 from ads 2016 01, goldengatetools installer is no longer supported for using momentum, dds and ptolemy with goldengate inside virtuoso, you need to point to the ads installation set hpeesof dir to ads installation set ads license file momentum enhanced via simplification the simplification is done as part of the simulation process and works on a hierarchical layout it is not longer required to perform the via simplification before the simulation on a flattened layout view the simplification setup no longer requires ic process specific skill code to maintain backwards compatibility, the legacy via simplification driven by the user will remain active when such process specific skill code is found the em simulation flow has been enhanced to account for the effect of dummy metal fills more efficiently a new, fast equivalent dielectric layer approach is provided which accounts for the dominant effect of the metal fill besides, the momentum simulation performance of a rigorous analysis of the metal fills has been improved enhanced import ircx file in substrate editor issues addressed momentum the dc point in the adaptively sampled dataset ('\<name> a ds') will be an exact copy of the simulated dc result (no longer based on the rational fit) the low frequency sampling will generate at least 5 samples per decade from 10 khz to 1 ghz to improve the interpolation accuracy, and all actually simulated frequencies will be part of this dataset an issue has been fixed in the microwave mode where low frequency results of a design containing tml calibrated ports didn't match the rf mode results 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 4 or newer versions to use ggtools and dynamic link in ads 2014 01 ads 2016 01 and goldengate version/license compatibility goldengate ads 2016 01 version eesof license version eesof codeword version 2016 01 2016 01 2015 05 3 2 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 11 redhat enterprise 5 solaris 32 bit versions of linux redhat enterprise linux 4 novell suse sles 9 novell suse sles 10 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 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 ic 6 1 3