Software Directory Structure

The general structure of a Mentor Electronic Board Systems (EBS) software installation consists of the Mentor target location folder, which contains one or more root folders for a specific Mentor EBS product release. The SDD root product release folder contains the SDD Home and MGC Home root folders and the product documentation folder.

The following graphic shows an example of a locally installed tree.

Figure 1. Simple Tree Structure Example

The software tree has the following folders:

Mentor Target Location Folder

The single root folder for all Mentor EBS software residing on a system. The default folder name is MentorGraphics.

You can keep complete installs for different flows in sibling folders under the Mentor target location folder.

Note:

The installer enables you to set the name of the Mentor target folder. However, do not change the names of the subfolders. Also, after you perform the installation, do not change the name of the Mentor target folder.

Note:

To facilitate software administration, install all Mentor EBS software in the same Mentor target location folder.

Flow Version Root Folder

This root folder is specific for each Mentor EBS software release. MIP sets the name of the flow version root folder and uses the convention flowversion. In the graphic above, the PADS<old_version> root folders would be PADSVX.2.5 and the PADS<new_version> would be PADSVX.2.6.

The flow version root folder, which exists one level below the Mentor target location folder, contains the MGC_HOME, SDD_HOME, and docs folders.

Product Documentation / InfoHubs Folder

The docs folder contains the product documentation packages. For details, refer to “Documentation Directory Structure” in the Mentor Documentation System manual.

SDD Home Folder

The SDD_HOME folder contains the software trees for individual EBS product releases. The applications install under C:\MentorGraphics\<release_version>\SDD_HOME.

MGC Home Folder

The MGC_HOME folder contains software for printing, licensing components, and certain legacy applications.