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=Calibre=
Calibre will do rules checking and parasitic extraction of VLSI designs.

To setup the Calibre environment, type
 Calibre
This will change the command line prompt to include "[Calibre]".

To run the program
 calibre -gui

To view the documentation
 mgcdocs

To use the Cadence / Calibre interface, add the following to your .cdsinit file and remember to invoke both
environments, Cadence and Calibre (and possibly ADS).

<pre>
; .cdsinit for Calibre

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; check CALIBRE_HOME
;
cal_home=getShellEnvVar("CALIBRE_HOME")
if( cal_home==nil then
    cal_home=getShellEnvVar("MGC_HOME")
    if( cal_home!=nil then
        printf("// CALIBRE_HOME environment variable not set; setting it to value of MGC_HOME\n");
    )
)

if( cal_home!=nil && isDir(cal_home) && isReadable(cal_home) then

    ; Load calibre.skl or calibre.4.3.skl, not both!

    ; Load calibre.skl for Cadence versions 4.4 and greater
    load(strcat(cal_home "/lib/calibre.skl"))

;;;;Load calibre.4.3.skl for Cadence version 4.3
;;; load(strcat(cal_home "/lib/calibre.4.3.skl"))

else

    ; CALIBRE_HOME is not set correctly. Report the problem.

    printf("//  Calibre Error: Environment variable ")

    if( cal_home==nil || cal_home=="" then
        printf("CALIBRE_HOME is not set.");
    else
        if( !isDir(cal_home) then
            printf("CALIBRE_HOME does not point to a directory.");
        else
            if( !isReadable(cal_home) then
                printf("CALIBRE_HOME points to an unreadable directory.");
            )
        )
    )
    printf(" Calibre Skill Interface not loaded.\n")

    ; Display a dialog box message about load failure.

    hiDisplayAppDBox(
        ?name           'MGCHOMEErrorDlg
        ?dboxBanner     "Calibre Error"
        ?dboxText       "Calibre Skill Interface not loaded."
        ?dialogType     hicErrorDialog
        ?dialogStyle    'modal
       ?buttonLayout   'Close
    )
)

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
</pre>
If you are using GoldenGate (part of ADS), add this to your .cdsinit file:
<pre>
;GoldenGate_cdsinit_grep_pattern
; @(#)$Id: .cdsinit_home,v 1.10 2011/08/24 17:40:17 cshyamsu Exp $
; Copyright 1983 Agilent Technologies, Inc
if(getShellEnvVar("XPEDION") then
	load(sprintf(nil "%s/aa/.cdsinit" getShellEnvVar("XPEDION")))
else
	printf(".cdsinit/.oceanrc: Environment variable XPEDION is not set!\n")
)

if(getShellEnvVar("HPEESOF_DIR") then
	load(sprintf(nil "%s/idf/config/.cdsinit" getShellEnvVar("HPEESOF_DIR")))
else
	printf(".cdsinit/.oceanrc: Environment variable HPEESOF_DIR is not set!\n")
)
/*
To make GoldenGate your default simulator, you can add the following line to
your ~/.cdsenv file:

asimenv.startup simulator string "GoldenGate"

Alternatively, you can activate the envSetVal line by moving it outside this
comment-block.

(this comment moved by jkh as above)*/
envSetVal("asimenv.startup" "simulator" 'string "GoldenGate")
</pre>
To run Cadence with Calibre and GoldenGate:
 ADS
 Calibre
 Cadence_new
 icfb &
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