My job is to install Cadence in a university lab so that E.E. undergrads can get hands-on experience to prepare them for working in the industry. I'm a computer person, not an E.E. My experience with this project so far is that the documentation is very confusing and flat-out wrong in some cases. I would really appreciate some conceptual and practical answers to help get this running. Thank you! 1. InstallScape asks for an Installation directory, so I pointed it to: /etc/cadence and installed the Base for IC11241. That seemed to work. Then I tried to repeat the process for Assura and it wouldn't let me use the same directory because of duplicate filenames with the module already installed. What is the correct file hierarchy to install the various Cadence pieces? I realize you can't give a detailed answer, but a conceptual answer would be most helpful. 2. Is there a main Cadence application that is used to load whatever design tool the engineer needs at the time, or is each design tool a stand-alone program? 3. Nowhere in the install docs have I found where it says how to run Cadence. What program or script runs Cadence? (Or each design tool, depending on the answer to question 2.) I really appreciate any and all help you can lend. Thank you!