EE 421L - Lab 1 - Laboratory Introduction, Generating/Posting HTML Lab Reports, Installing and Using Cadence

Jonathan K DeBoy
deboyj@unlv.nevada.edu
24 August 2015

Pre-lab work

The lab reports will be drafted using html and placed on CMOSedu.
Prior to the first day of lab, but no earlier than one week before the lab starts, get a CMOSedu account, using your UNLV email address, from Dr. Baker, rjacobbaker@gmail.com
Review the material seen here covering editing webpages (do this before the first lab)

Introduction

This lab served as an introduction to the formats and procedures required for every lab this semester as well as a fresh introcution to the Cadence EDA tools.

Cadence Tutorial I

This tutorial calls for the creation of a simple voltage divider in Virtuoso. First we start off by creating a library called Tutorial_1:

Create a new cell and schematic and generate the following schematic via components in the analogLib library:

Time to simulate. Launch>ADE L. Change the simulation settings to see the desired plots and to ensure it is running a Spetre simulation vs H-Spice. After hitting run, it should look like this:

Backup

The CMOSedu folder will be zipped on the Cadence Cluster and saved onto my computer via SFTP every week as a form of backup. I will use the following linux command to zip each lab folder and simply drag and drop the file from the GUI of MobaXTerm's SFTP window.