Lab 1 - EE 421L 

Edgar Solorio

solori12@unlv.nevada.edu   

8/30/2013

Lab description:

1.) Start Electric up- Once you open up Electric, you should see the graphical user interface as shown below.

2.) Save Printer ink - Change the Electric background colors by clicking on Window -> Color Schemes -> White Background Colors.

3.) Set up preferences - Set up the preferences as seen below by going to File -> Preferences -> Technology -> Technology. NOTE: check the "Analog" box as well.

4.) Set the Scale(lambda) - Now click on the "Scale" button and change the scale size to 300.0, which can be entered at the bottom left entry box as seen below.

 

5.) Save Point - Go to File -> Save Library As -> tutorial_1.jelib to save your current "project". We will now make a schematic of a resisitive divider. Go to Cell -> New Cell and enter the name "R_divider" and select "schematics" as seen below.

6.) Exploring your "project" - Notice that you can click the "components","explorer", or "Layers" tabs on the top left to see your project as it becomes more complex. Make sure your on the Components tab, your window will look the same as below.

7.) Opening a resistor - Locate a box containing a resistor image with the word "Normal" and click on the arrowhead in the box. Place the resistor onto the drawing area as seen below. Zoom in to make the resistor larger by using ctrl + (mouse scroll wheel).

8.) Resistor properties - Double click the resistor box (avoid directly clicking just the values of the resistor) and open up the "more..." button. Enter all the values as shown below.If the well resistance isn't showing up, hit the "more" button.

9.) Schematic Resistor - Your resistor schematic should look like below when the settings are applied for a 10K resistor

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