The Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System family of products provides an integrated solution for an RTL-to-GDSII design flow. This manual describes how to install, configure, and use Innovus™ Implementation System (Innovus) to implement digital integrated circuits.
Audience
This manual is written for experienced designers of digital integrated circuits. Such designers must be familiar with design planning, placement and routing, block implementation, chip assembly, and design verification. Designers must also have a solid understanding of UNIX and Tcl/Tk programming.
How This Manual Is Organized
The Innovus Stylus Common UI User Guide provides an extensive description of the major design flows, methodologies, and software capabilities.
The Innovus Stylus Common UI User Guide provides an extensive description of the major design flows, methodologies, and software capabilities. The Flows section describes the key flows in the software and the recommended methodologies. It is organized into the following chapters:
The rest of the guide describes the capabilities supported by Stylus. Related capabilities are grouped together. Refer to the following Capabilities sections to see the detailed chapters under them:
- Introduction and Setup Guide
- Design Import and Export Capabilities
- Design Planning Capabilities
- Design Implementation Capabilities
- Hierarchical Flow Capabilities
- Prototyping Flow Capabilities
- Analysis Capabilities
- Verification Capabilities
- ECOs and Interactive Design Editing
- Design Methodology for 3D IC with Through Silicon Via
- Safety Implementation and Verification with USF
- Syntax and Scripts
Conventions Used in This Manual
This section describes the typographic and syntax conventions used in this manual.
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Related Documents
For more information about the Innovus family of products, see the following documents. You can access these and other Cadence documents using the Doc Assistant documentation system.
Innovus Product Documentation
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Provides information about new and changed features in this release of the Innovus family of products.
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Describes the Innovus text commands, including syntax and examples.
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Provides information specific to the forms and commands available from the Innovus graphical user interface.
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Lists all of the Innovus database access commands and provides a brief description of syntax and usage.
Describes how to use the scripts that represent the recommended implementation flows for digital timing closure with the Innovus software.
Describes the digital mixed-signal flow.- README file
Contains installation, compatibility, and other prerequisite information. You can read this file online at downloads.cadence.com.
Stylus Common UI Documentation
Provides information on migrating from legacy to the Stylus Common UI version of the Innovus software.
Describes how to install and configure the Innovus Stylus software, and provides strategies for implementing digital integrated circuits.
Provides information about new and changed features in this release of the Innovus family of products.
Describes the Innovus Stylus Common UI text commands, including syntax and examples.
Provides information specific to the forms and commands available from the Innovus Stylus Common UI graphical user interface.
Provides information about Stylus Common UI database objects.
Describes the digital mixed-signal flow using Innovus Stylus Common UI.
For a complete list of documents provided with this release, see the Doc Assistant online documentation system.
Additional Learning Resources
Online Trainings
Cadence offers several training courses on Innovus. For a visual guide of the courses available in the Digital Design and Signoff space, click the links provided on our Learning Map page.
You can also write to training_enroll@cadence.com.
Videos
The Video Library on Cadence Online Support provides a comprehensive list of videos on various Cadence products. Click the link below to view a list of available Innovus videos: