PSD14.2 concept, PSD15.1 allegro

I am finding that I can not have PSD14.2 Cadence code and PSD15.1 both
working on the same Windows 2000 machine. We still have some old
designs that were done in 14.2 and would like to continue using PSD
14.2 Concept for schematics.

Has anyone been able to install 15.1 and still use the old 14.2
release on a machine?

 

Yup, just as having working 13.6 and 14.2 installations on the same system was
no big deal.

Just install the newer version to a different root folder, change all of the
Cadence-related environment variables to use %CDSROOT% in their values, then
simply toggle the value of CDSROOT between the paths to v14.* and v15.* roots
before starting Project Manager. Launch all the tools from there and it all
manages to work just peachy.

The only thing that can't (easily, anyway) be done is to run tools from the
two suites concurrently, but on a practical basis that's never proven to be an
issue...

/daytripper

 

I found a Windows utility setx on the microsoft site
setx can be used to update the system CDSROOT value. I created
a couple shortcuts to set either 14.2 or 15.1 CDSROOT values.

setx CDSROOT C:\Cadence\PSD_14.2 -m
or
setx CDSROOT C:\Cadence\PSD15.1 -m

Thanks for the help daytripper

 

Thanks for the setx tip! Good stuff.

/daytripper