Lab 1 - EE 421L: Digital Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory

Octavio L. Gonzalez

gonzao1@unlv.nevada.edu

Lab description:

Laboratory introduction, generating/posting html lab reports, installing and using Cadence

Pre-Lab Scope

• 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 for covering editing webpages (do this before the first lab)

Lab Work

• This first lab will go through the first part of Tutorial 1. Go through Tutorial 1 up to the 25th image in the tutorial.

Post-Lab Scope

• Your lab report will consist of:
  
1. Simply showing some of the images in this tutorial (that you generated) with some simple coherent narrative.
2. Discussing how you will do regular backups while working on the future labs by zipping up your work and emailing it to yourself or uploading to dropbox, google drive, etc. with file names including the date (include at least two images to support your discussion).
   

Pre-Lab:

Below are the pre-lab deliverables.

     Requesting a CMOSedu account. 

        An email was sent to Dr. Baker at rjacobbaker@gmail.com requesting a CMOSedu account.

Reviewing material for editing webpages.

The material for editing web pages was reviewed and used to construct this html page.

Refer to image links and formatting for demonstion.

 

         

Post-Lab:

Below are the post-lab deliverables.

Tutorial Narrative

P2: The tutorial calls for a simple series DC circuit ,

to which the menues and bindkeys were used to construct the following schematic.

 

P3: With the schematic complete, the simulation settings were configured to transient analysis.

Furthermore, the waveforms to be plotted were selected as the "in" and "out" nodes.

P4: Finally , after the simulation settings were defined, the waveform was able to be plotted as shown below.

Note: Tutorial-1 continues on.

Back-Up Discussion

Back-Ups will be performed regularly as suggested while working on the future labs.

The method of choice will be .zipping the file and emailing to gonzao@unlv.nevada.edu.

File name will be of the form: EE421L_Lab_N_BU NNXXXNNN. e.g. "EE421L Lab 1 BU 29AUG2015"

Conclusion:

Lab 1 served an introduction to generating and posting html lab reports, as well as provided hand on training with installing and using the Cadence C5 Process.

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