Setting-up Putty Environment at VLSI EXPERT - Window User

Setting-up Putty Environment at VLSI EXPERT - Window User

For Windows users:


Step 1: Download Putty

Click on the link Download PuTTY   -Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows


And if you don’t know your computer architecture then please, first check the architecture. Window -> System -> About and check the “System Type” as per below screen. 



Once you know the computer Architecture (64 Bit or 32Bit), Click putty.exe (the SSH and Telnet client itself) with your computer architecture and it will download the putty.



Step 2: Download Xming

To download the Xming, click on the link Xming X Server for Windows download | SourceForge.net, once page is loaded, click on download button. Install with default options.



Step 3: Launch Xming

Double click on Xming icon and it will be launched in background

 

Step 4: Launch Putty

 Open the Putty.exe in your computer and it will open like below popup!


Step 5: Configure Session

Enter your hostname (Provided by VLSI EXPERT admin ).



Step 6: Configure X Forwarding

Click on SSH and then click on X11 and Enable X11 forwarding.


Step 7: Saving Session name.

You should save your session by choosing a session name that you can remember. Come back to Session and enter a name in Saved Session. In below snapshot, “s0” has been used like a session name But you can use any name which you can remember.


After specifying session name, click on save. This will help you to open the session with the same setting next time by clicking on “LOAD” to the session.

 

Step 8: Launching Session

Finally click on “Open”, it will open the session like show below.

Note: If you are opening the session second time, first selected the saved session name -> Click on LOAD and it will load all the previous settings. Then Click on “Open”.



Note: If you receive below Alert, please click on Accept (this will come for first time user)




Step 9: User credentials validation

Once session is started, specify user id & password (credentials) already provided to you. In case you don’t know, please check VLSI EXPERT admin.

(Below example is for username “ravirc”, in your case you must use your userid.


Please note that password will not show up on screen (so type it correctly. Password is CASE sensitive). You may need to try it multiple times to get it write initially. Finally, the login will show up like following.




Step 10: Validating setup for GUI (x-forwarding validation)
Before running any GUI tool or command to open GUI, make sure to run xming in background. And for confirmation you check icon tray like this


Run xclock command in your terminal for testing whether the session has got X-Forwarding working correctly. In case it is working correctly, a clock application will show up as a popup.



Note: In case you are not able to see “xclock” popup – please check if X11 Forwarding setting is on at PUTTY setting. If that’s Enable, please check if you are running the Xming in background.

Now you can do basic Unix and TCL programing in the provided terminal.

To Run the Synopsys Tools - Please check our another Article.  


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