Jim Plusquellic

ECE 595: Advanced VLSI Design

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