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 project to one of the multiuser Team Design Manager solutions. Team Design Manager provides mechanisms for controlling access to managed data, setting up more secure projects, establishing e-mail notification lists that notify various groups about project events (such as releases), and maintaining project library searchlists.

• Base Team Design Manager
  If you need design management, but not the full capabilities of Team Design Manager, you can use Base Team Design Manager, available with the 4.4.x or 5.x release of Design Framework II™.
• Formal Team Design Manager
  For complete design management, use the Team Design Manager product, which includes a Formal release mechanism and other features beyond Base Team Design Manager.

Whether your design project is a two-person task or involves several work groups contributing to a major project, you can have a design environment where you share data—or work independently when you choose.
If you are leading the project, you can set up the project, supervise the data sharing, and prepare releases. Team Design Manager offers solutions to these and other common design management problems.

Comparison of Different Level of Design Management

Usemodel	Designenvironment	Features
None	An individual designer who uses operating system commands to manage design data files. The design tools read and write directly to the file system.	Files/directories
Base Release Model	A simple, single-release process that supports individual designers and design teams.	Check-in/out Version control View file status
Formal Release Model	A formal, multiple-release process for design teams that need to share, integrate, and release design data.	Base model plus integration and multiple releases

Team Design Manager Work Flow