ADS ial INSTALL ALLREGO ADS All files needed for the Momentum into Allegro integration can

can be found in the directory %HPEESOF_DIR%/ial or $HPEESOF_DIR/ial. this is the directory where this INSTALL file normaly resides. HPEESOF_DIR is an environment variable that points the head of the ADS installation tree. Or the directory where ial directory is copied. On machines without ADS you need to copy the entire ial directory to this machine. With Allegro 16.00 or higher the machine will also require Python 2.5 or 2.6 to have the ADFI working. To install the Momentum export in a personal configuration for Allegro 1) Inside Allegro goto File->Script to open the scripting tool and browse for the file $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/scripts/eemLocalConfig.scr. Note: make sure you enable the Change Directory flag in the Allegro file browser. 2) Replay the configuration script. To install the Momentum export interface into in a site configuration for Allegro 1) Modify the Allegro initialization files to load the Momentum integration context file and set the parameters it needs Note: + Make sure to always use / as path delimiter inside the Allegro configuration files! + ~/ translates to %HOME%\\ on windows and $HOME/ on linux a) Goto the your site's skill configuration directory which can reside in the following locations /share/pcb/etc/skill (or a user-defined location specified by CDS_SITE) $ALLEGRO_SITE/skill ~/pcbenv

. (the program's start directory) An allegro.ilinit file residing in any of these directories will be loaded in above order b) Open the file allegro.ilinit that you want ot use with the editor of your choise - Create the file if it does not exist already in the correct location c) If HPEESOF_DIR is not an environment variable, add the following line (setShellEnvVar "HPEESOF_DIR=") d) (optional) add the line (setShellEnvVar "EEMOM_SKILL_DIR=") to tell the interface where to look for the skill context file that provides the export functionality. By default it will look in $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/skill/15.7 e) Required in standalone installation of the ial EEMOM_PYTHON must point to a local of Python executable (setShellEnvVar "EEMOM_PYTHON=") f) (optional) add the line (setShellEnvVar "EEMOM_GLOBALOPTIONSFILE=/eemom.option") to tell the interface where to look for the global export options file to populate the setup settings. It defaults to $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/config/eemom.option note : the contents of the optional files $HOME/pcbenv/eemom.option and /.option will be added to the list g) load the skill initilization file, by adding the line (load "/eemom.ini") the shipped version is $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/skill/15.7/eemom.ini so the above line would become (load (sprintf nil "%s/ial/skill/15.7/eemom.ini" (getShellEnvVar "HPEESOF_DIR"))) 2) Add the Momentum export menu items An example for a popup menu to be added to the Allegro menufile is provided in the file $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/config/eemMenuFrag.men

A) An automatic insertion of the example fragment in the default position is can be done by adding (setShellEnvVar "EEMOM_MENU_AUTOLOAD=ON") to the allegro.ilinit file above. B) For configurations with specific menu setup requirements you need to modify the Allegro menufile Notes: * the location /share/local/pcb/menus used below can be changed to any directory by either + modifying the MENUPATH allegro variable to include the new directory + using the Allegro UI -> Setup -> User Preferences ... and add the directory where the menufile resides to Ui_paths menupath + adding the following line to your allegro.ilinit file - see below for more info on how to modify allegro.ilinit (setShellEnvVar "EEMOM_MENUPATH=") In this case, if a menufile resides in the working directory, and the working directory is first in Allegro's MENUPATH, then that file will be used. a) Copy the /share/pcb/text/cuimenus/allgro.men - or the menufile you currently are using - to /share/local/pcb/menus b) open the file in a text editor c) Add the content of $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/config/eemMenuFrag.men to this file just before the POPUP "&Help" d) save the file. 3) Open the Allegro PCB editor, the Momentum menu entry should be visible in the menubar at the top If not check and modify the allegro configuration and modify the ui menu path to make sure that the place where your updated allegro.men

file is stored is in front of the path. You get there through: Setup->User Preference->Ui paths push on the menu path button. Enable the Allegro import interface into ADS by loading the import design kit residing in $HPEESOF_DIR/ial/import_kit/import_allegro__dk into ADS as an ADS design kit.