Greg,

Thanks

I have been told by Intercept that they are no longer able to supply the
Cadence skill script due to some legal reasons. I'm not sure at what
(Pantheon) version Intercept stopped supplying the script, but the board
I need to translate is new.

They have offered to write me mentor files from the Pantheon database,
(first one free) subsequent ones charged depending on the effort. I sent
them a small board for a trial, this may be the way I have to go.


Regards

John


Greg Dance wrote:
>
>
> John,
> Intercept has a separately licensed product that will allow you to write
> out of Pantheon to Cadence Allegro v13 or v14. In the past Intercept has
> done conversions for customers on a contract basis for customers that
> did not own the translator. You should look on their website
> (www.intercept.com <http://www.intercept.com>) for details about the
> translator and to obtain their sales contact numbers. If they don't do
> this any more they may be able to provide you with the name of an
> outside service bureau which has the license and could do the
> translation for you.
>
> Greg
>
> *From:* johndp1989 <mailto:johndp@...>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:03 AM
> *To:* InterceptUsers@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:InterceptUsers@yahoogroups.com>
> *Subject:* [InterceptUsers] Pantehon to Cadence
>
> First of all apologies, I am a Cadence user, well for the SI tools
> anyway. Anyway a sister company uses pantheon as there layout tool,
> but I have been asked to simulate the Power delivery network for there
> boards. I need to be able to import the pantheon data bases into the
> cadence Allegro PCB SI tools top do this. I am aware that it is
> possible to export Mentor and then import into Cadence, but I was
> wondering if anybody had a more direct route. I need more than just
> dumb etch, which I can get by importing a specctra router DSN file, I
> need net names and ref designators so that the Cadence tools
> understand what is an IC, capacitor, inductor ect.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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