Lab 1 - EE 421L 
Authored by Youssef Abdallah,
abdaly1@unlv.nevada.edu
August 31, 2015
   
Pre-Lab work

• Get a CMOSedu account to have a personal webpage to post lab reports
• Get familiar with Kompozer to edit webpages on CMOSedu.com . (A sample is shown in pre-lab1.html webpage)
  

---

 Lab Report

        Part 1:

The purpose of this lab is to install and set up UNLV Design Software MobaXterm to access Cadence Design system for chip design, layout, and simulation.

• First step was to get a username from Dr. Greg, Download and install MobaXterm and the NCSU Cadence Design Kit.

 

•  Following the instructions provided on CMOSedu.com, extract and copy the files to the correct directory. 
• Add codes to point to the correct libraries we will be using, then start virtuoso editing tool. 

 

•  A new library has been crated  with the nameTutorial_1 and it is noticed that a definition line is added to the cd.lib file in the CMOSedu directory along with the definitions of all chapters from the book download previously  

 

• Within the new library, a new cell view file was created to start adding instances (components) to create a simple electric circuit as shown in the following picture.

 

• To simulate with Spectre (Cadence’s SPICE simulator), we launch ADE L

 

• Settings and information are saved by setting Save State Option to Cellview

 

• Finally, simulation could be run after analyzing the circuit and choosing the input and output. Showing the following results:

 

---

        Part 2:
 
To make sure all the work is save and backed up, all labs folders will be uploaded to Google Drive each week. It is  efficient to have all the work saved to Cloud storage for immediate access anytime.
 

 
 
Return to EE 421L Labs