Prerequisites for Virtuoso Abstract Generator

This section is aimed at developers and designers of integrated circuits and assumes that you are familiar with:

The Virtuoso Studio design environment and application infrastructure mechanisms designed to support consistent operations between all Cadence^® tools.
The applications used to design and develop integrated circuits in the Virtuoso Studio design environment, notably, the Virtuoso Layout Suite, and Virtuoso Schematic Editor.
The Virtuoso Studio design environment technology file.
Component description format (CDF), which lets you create and describe your own components for use with Layout XL.