Jim Plusquellic
Associate Professor, Department of
ECE,
UNM
ECE 595: Advanced VLSI Design
Course Syllabus
Prof. Reese's Std Cell Library Tutorial
Mississippi State Std Library Tutorial (ppt)
Slides:
Design Flow Overview
Virginia Tech Std Cell Tutorial
Announcements:
8/22/2016:
Install Redhat linux on your laptop
Goto support.cadence.com, login, download and install InstallScape
Install IC6.16 or IC6.17
Laboratory Notes:
8/30/2016:
Cadence server: 'setenv CDS_LIC_FILE 5280@firebird.ece.unm.edu'
Mentor Graphics server: 'setenv MGLS_LICENSE_FILE 1717@ece46sql01.ece.unm.edu'
Don writes:
I took some notes of what packages were missing while I was getting CentOS 7 configured for cadence and I've included them below in
case anyone else needs them. Other than missing packages I didn't really run into problems worth noting in my opinion.
sudo yum install glibc.i686 ksh xterm redhat-lsb redhat-lsb.i686
Links:
Weste/Harris text book website
Erik Brunvand's Tool Scripts Appendix
NCSU main website
NCSU website for PDK
MOSIS website (for chip fabrication)
Oklahoma State University Main site
Virginia Tech Main page: Cadence Tutorials
Mississippi state tutorials (somewhat dated)
Wikipedia link to Standard Cell design methodology
Chip talk
Oklahoma State University std cell libraries
Virginia Tech std cell library (TSMC 0.18/0.25/0.35)
Integrated Circuit Hardware Analysis Laboratory (IC-HAL) Tutorials
Laboratory Notes:
Cadence working directory files
ELC: Encounter Library Characterizer (courtesy of Charles Lamech)
CADENCE tutorials for beginners! (courtesy of Mike)
Laboratories:
Lab1
Lab2 Files
AES Design Files
STD_LIBS
Lab3 Files
Lab4 Files
Project:
8080 source code