Cadence Project Design Management(I): OverView

Cadence 有内部的项目管理和版本管理工具，即TDM，在设计的时候用上TDM工具可以方便的进行项目管理和电路/版图版本管理，最明显的好处就是可以通过版本管理追溯以前的修改，可以防止手贱改错了电路而又不知道如何恢复原状的问题。
以下是结合Cadence Project Design Management帮助文档摘录的TDM简易设置使用方法，分四个部分呈上，第一部分先对TDM进行简略的介绍，供大家参考。

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The Team Design Manager Administrator Guide assumes that you are a project administrator or manager who is installing and maintaining Team Design Manager software, supervising the directory structure, and managing the integration and internal release of designs.

Design Management Options

In a single-user environment, for simple designs, you can choose to use no design management. Cadence design tools read and write directly to the file system and require no modification to work in this environment. You use standard UNIX commands to perform design management tasks.
As your design or project grows, you can convert the