Good ADC link

http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes10.cfm/ac_pk/2

Some useful unix commands to monitor process

ps -ef | grep user

ps -ef | grep icfb

restarting cadence license server

/CMC/tools/cadence/IC/tools/bin/lmgrd -c /CMC/tools/licenses/cds.license

Measuring capacitance and Q factor from s parameters

Cin
value((imag((YP 1 1)) / (xval((YP 1 1)) * 2 * pi)) 5.426e+09)
cap_Q
value((imag((YP 1 1)) / real((YP 1 1))) 5.426e+09)

Cadence crash of the day...

Like usual.. without warnign or reason... "floating integer error" boom... erasing the cadence cds.lib file with it... why???

ASSURA Tutorials

Some of the best tutorials I found floating around on the interweb, note that one of them is in spanish but since it's a cadence tutorial it's comprehensible enough.

EMG TUTORIAL
English Tutorial

QRC (ASSURA) How to fill the forms for extraction

Assura QRC (Filtering Menu)



Assura Extraction (Setup Menu)



Assura QRC (Setup Menu)