Lab 1 - ECE 421L 

Authored by Silvestre Solano,

Email: Solanos3@unlv.nevada.edu

9-8-2014

For this lab report, we were asked to follow through Tutorial 1  and describe how we intend to back up our stuff.

The first part of Tutorial 1 gives a brief explanation on how to install MobaXterm and how to set up Cadance. I will spare you the boredom of this step and skip to the login and openning of Cadance.

To login, the command "ssh -Y username@csimcluster.ee.unlv.edu" must be used. The user will be promped to enter thier password. After the password is entered, the "cd CMOSedu" command must be used. Finally typing in the command "virtuoso &", Cadance loads up and the library manager opens up as shown below.

In the above picture, the library that was created to contain the schematic for Tutorial 1 was named "HW_2" because it just so happens that the second homework assignment for professor Baker's lecture also involved the use Tutorial 1.

In order to start the assignment, I first had to build the 10k resistive divider schematic as shown above. The purpose of this simple resistor network is to divide the given input by half at the output, which is labeled "out". To verify this I ran a simulation. In some of the pictures, the library folder was originally named "HW_1", but I later corrected this mistake and named the folder "HW_2".

A transient analysis is used and is set to run for 1 second. The results of the simulation are shown below for the input of 1V. As expected, the shown output is 0.5V.

And that concludes the Tutorial 1 portion of the lab.

Backups

In general, people should always back up thier important data and then have a backup for the backup, and if possible, have a backup of the backup of the backup. My first back up will consists of zipping up all the folders containing each lab and storing it on my laptop as shown below.
 

 
My second backup will consist of having the same folder stored in my flash drive. In theory, having all the labs stored in either the CMOSedu website, my laptop, or my flash drive should be enough for a reliable backup. However, in the highly unlikely event that the CMOSedu website crashes AND my house burns down, completely destroying my laptop and flash drive, I will email each lab to myself periodically as shown below.
 

 
This brings the total number of backups to three, which means that my backups have backups. This should be enough for any reasonably sane person. And this pretty much covers everything for my backups.

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