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It's important to note that most if not all of these tools are written for Linux first. You would usually have a local server running the tools which you'd then
by Cyph0n 10y ago
It's important to note that most if not all of these tools are written for Linux first. You would usually have a local server running the tools which you'd then SSH into and use X11 forwarding to get the GUI. Interestingly, most of these tools can be fully automated and operated from the command line using Tcl (Mentor), or even a custom scripting language like Cadence's OCEAN.
I personally found Cadence Virtuoso to have above average UX, but I do agree that the GUI looks slightly dated.
- davidgay 10y agoThey didn't start by writing their tools for Linux, as all of these companies were founded in the eighties and started writing their software before Linux even existed... And Mentor Graphics initially ran on Apollo machines, which were running a proprietary though somewhat Unix-like OS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_Design_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_Design_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synopsys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synopsys
- Cyph0n 10y agoI'm not familiar with the history of their tools to be frank. I was talking about their current offerings, which are as I said mostly designed to run on Linux, with Windows support added in as an afterthought - if you're lucky.