Lab 1 - ECE 421L
Garnerj5@unlv.nevada.edu
05 September
2016
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The purpose of
Lab 1 was to familiarize students with editing webpages, working with cadence.
My report consists of images and comments of my work while finishing Tutorial_1
on cadence. My report also shows how I am going to backup and document my work
throughout the semester.
Cadence Tutorial 1
Instructions: Complete Tutorial 1 up to the 25th
image providing pictures and narrative of the tutorial as you complete it.
The beginning
of the tutorial was already completed through working in lecture in Cadence and
with the Prelab.
The first
picture is replacing the old diva files in the NCSU_TechLib
file.
The next
picture is the opening of Cadence using the virtuoso & command, after using the cd CMOSedu or change directory command,
and opening the library manger if the window does not pop up when opening
cadence.
The next
picture is the process of verifying the Tutorial_1 text in the cds.lib file in
my CMOSedu
directory. This file was already changed from lecture or doing the prelab.
The process of
changing the value of the resistor is
pictured below. Here we used the instance hotkey (i)
and the properties hotkey (q) to
familiarize ourselves with hotkeys.
The next step
in the tutorial involved wiring the circuit after adding more instances. (Gnd/Vdc) We used the wire hotkey (w) to do so. After this we used the label hotkey (l)
to label the wires “in” and “out”.
The next
process I did was to check and save. After the saving process I simulated my
circuit. To do this I had to choose the type of analysis as transient with a 1
second stop time. Then I selected the two signals I wanted to plot which were
“in” and “out”.
Hitting the
green Netlist and run button I got my results from the simulation. Here I also
changed my “in” signal color to green and my “out” signal color to red. The
process following these steps was saving the state and loading the cell view
for practice.
Backup Process
Instructions:
Show the method in which you are going to back up your labs throughout the
semester with comments and pictures.
Throughout the
semester I am going to work on my labs without using the ftp method. I will
work from the file directly and use Microsoft word as my text editor.
I will then
back up my files by zipping those folders up and sending them in an email to
myself with notes for each file. Pictured to the right shows my progress with
each file, Tutorial_1 being complete and Lab1 file needing webpage editing
still.
