By now, you have probably heard about the new family of Virtuoso ADE tools, publicly introduced at CDNLive Silicon Valley. If not, go take a look! The new tools work with a new database and viewname called "maestro". (That's Italian for "master", in case there are any logophiles out there.) So we will need to create a new cellview. Wait--don't run away--it's one command. You can do it right now without even opening a manual. "Open With..." to Get Started If you have an ADE L state, in the Library Manager, click the RMB on it and select "Open With...". Remember "Open With..."? That command you never use? Well, here is a great reason to use it. There is an entry on the form to select which application to open the ADE L state with. Choose "ADE Explorer". Give the new cellview a name. The default viewname is maestro (see above). The new maestro view will open in ADE Explorer with all your ADE L setup ready for you to hit the green button. If you have an ADE XL view, the procedure is exactly the same, except you choose "ADE Assembler" instead of ADE Explorer. The new maestro view will open in ADE Assembler with all your ADE XL setup ready to run. The Blue Arrow So here's the thing—wait, are you paying attention? Don't come to my office hours later and ask, because I'm going to explain it to you right here... It makes no difference how you created your maestro view above . No matter where you start, you'll be able to transition between the single testbench environment of ADE Explorer and the multi-testbench environment of ADE Assembler by clicking on the blue arrow next to the testname. (Why is it blue? Who knows? It's a mystery for the ages.) Did you start off in ADE Explorer and want to add a test? Click the blue arrow to go up to ADE Assembler, then select "Click to add test". Did you start in ADE Assembler, but are really only interested in working with one of the tests, without all the extra clutter? Click the blue arrow to work in ADE Explorer (similar to using the Test Editor from ADE XL—only with a lot more useful features, like corners and Monte Carlo). It's all part of the same view, so any changes you make are synchronized between the tools. There's More than One Way Of course there is—this is Cadence after all. You can load an ADE L state directly into ADE Explorer. You can import an ADE XL view directly into ADE Assembler. And there are APIs to migrate ADE L states and ADE XL views into maestro views so you can move a whole library of ADE setups to the new tools with a quick script. Bonus tip : The new maestro cellview greatly reduces the number of files in your ADE setup. Instead of 20 tiny little files for each ADE state (multiplied by number of tests and number of histories for ADE XL), each setup is a single XML file. This reduces DM check-in/check-out times by as much as 100X. For more details, take a look at the following videos: Migrating an ADE L Setup to ADE Explorer Migrating ADE L/XL Setup to ADE Assembler Transitioning between ADE Assembler and ADE Explorer Questions, comments, ideas for future topics, please chime in below. TeamADE![]()
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