Lab 1 - EE 421L 

Authored by Shada Sharif,

sharifs@unlv.nevada.edu

31 August 2015

Pre-lab work:

• Request a CMOSedu account from Dr. Baker
• Review material from cmosedu.com on editing web pages

• This lab's purpose is to get familiar with using Cadence and drawing as well as simulating circuits there. Moreover, this lab is also to help get familiar with editing web pages.

• Pictures showing that one followed the Tutorial 1 steps from CMOSedu
• How one will be backing up the lab material 
• Comments on the pictures that will be attached to show that one understands what is happening

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Part 1

• The first part of this lab consisted of setting up Cadence using MobaXterm, this was done through following the steps from the CMOSedu link . 
• Obtaining an account for Cadence via rebelmail
• Changing the account password
• Getting familiar with MobaXterm
• Creating a CMOSedu folder
• After going through the above steps, we then had to download the NCSU CDK which is done by
• Registering an edu mail and receiving the instruction through mail
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• After that we had to extract the downloaded folder and add it to the home directory. As well as adding few commands to define the extracted folders.
• Once all this has been done, we can start Cadence by typing the command as shown in the picture below. 

• Once Cadence has started and the windows shown above pop-up we can start working with Cadence.
• The first thing to be done is to create a new library called " Tutorial_1 " that will use the C5N 0.6u process as shown below and to define the new library as well

• Then we had to create a new cell that is a schematic type, and clicking on the newly created cell to launch the schematic editor

• We begin building the circuit by adding components, and then the circuit is done as the following

• Just before we simulate our circuit using ADE L we had to save our work by clicking on the save button with a check mark on it, and to pick the state we want our circuit to run as
• Notice that simulation with Spectre was done as default

• One very last step was to define what to plot when the simulation was done since the input and output nodes were labeled we did that following in order to plot the input and output of the circuit and then we finally get the waveform as shown below

 

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Part 2

• All the lab work is saved on a folder named by the lab # and after the work is done it is zipped and uploaded to dropbox as shown below

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