Import EDIF into Composer/Virtuoso

The only thing I've found is here:

I haven't tried them and it's pretty expensive. They do have a service for a one-time translation that may be less expensive.

Here's their reply to me about a Cohesion to Cadence translator:

Thank you for your interest in the product and services of Engineering DataXpress.

We have a translator product, the DXL122-10, which translates schematics and symbols from Cohesion Designer (ECS) to Cadence Virtuoso Composer. The price for a single user (node locked) license is $14,400 (ECS on UNIX) and $12,600 (ECS on PC). It includes 90 days of maintenance support.

Their conversion service was quoted as follows: Our conversion service pricing is as follows:

1. Setup Fee ,000

1. Re-setup Fee ,500, charged if, after a complete setup and trial translation, we find that a significant amount of information is missing, or the design changes after the initial setup and a new setup is required.

2. 0.00 per schematic page

1. .00 per each unique symbol.

2. 0.00 per hour for extra work caused by design errors. If your designs have followed all the rules of the source system, then there shouldn't be any work here. This is required to a avoid the "garbage in, garbage out" problem.

Please note that we always ask for a PO that authorizes up to 125 percent of our estimate (rounded up to the nearest dollar). This is to cover extra work that we may need to do. We don't charge for that without your permission to do the extra work.

These guys also have edif translators, but don't seem to have the right flavor of Cadence (Concept only).

I've never gotten an edif translation to work. So far it's been easier to re-enter the schematic.

I'm hoping this will change one day, but so far marketing thinks that not supplying translators keeps their customers locked into their product.

Regards, Larry

...Jim Thompson