The design environment working with the standard CAD tools can be installed in your computer account of VLSI design room. The command prompt of the terminal will be written as "vlsi>" in this manual.

1. Obtain the design kit of CMOS 180nm technology.
   

   vlsi> mkdir  ~/lab
   vlsi> cp  /home/kitagawa/design/rohm180.tar  ~/lab/
   vlsi> cd  ~/lab
   vlsi> tar  xvf  rohm180.tar
   

2. Set the CAD software's environment variables.
   

   vlsi> cd
   vlsi> mv  .cshrc  .cshrc.org2
   vlsi> cp  /home/kitagawa/design/ex.cshrc   ~/.cshrc
   vlsi> cp  /home/kitagawa/design/ex.setlic  ~/setlic
   vlsi> source  ~/.cshrc
   vlsi> ln  -s  ~/lab/rohm180  d
   

   You can move into the working directory with the command line "cd ~/d".

NOTE: "Cadence library" means the design data created by Cadence IED tool. This data includes the schematics, layout artworks, HDL code, Settings for simulators, and so on. The Cadence library should be handled with Cadence Library Manager. Do not manipulate the Cadence library by using UNIX command.

UNIX Commands

The design environments of LSI are nomally provided based on the UNIX system and the CAD softwares in Kanazawa university depends on the Linux which is the operating system developed with conforming to UNIX. Please learn the commands frequently used in Linux.

Command	Operation
gnome-terminal &	Starting a terminal software
TAB Key	Complement of the command and the path
Up-arrow key	Stepping forward on the command history
Down-arrow key	Stepping back on the command history
emacs filename &	Starting the text editor to edit the file
pwd	Printing the current directory
cd	Changing the current directory
ls	Listing the filenames in the currnt directory
ls -l	Listing the filenames and the attributes in the currnt directory
ls -a	Listing the hidden system files in the currnt directory
ln -s path string	link the file path or file to the character or the character string
cp filename1 filename2	Copying the file
mv filename1 filename2	Renaming the file and the directory
rm filename	Deleting the file
tar cvf filename.tar directory-name	Creating the archive file
tar xvf filename.tar	Decompressinging the archive file
gzip -f filename	Compressinginging the file
gzip -d filename	Decompressinging the file
less filename	Displaying of the contents of a text file