Lab 1 - EE 421L 

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

Michael Ghisilieri

ghisilie@unlv.nevada.edu

8/31/16

This lab covers the installation and initial setup of Cadence for use in the 421L course along with

building a voltage divider and showing its input and output with ADE L through Cadence. The last

part of the lab covers backing up our files to a repository.

When adding a component (referred to as an instance here) to our schematic, the Component Browser (on the left)

can be navigated to find our desired components. Once a component is selected, a resistor in our case, the Add Instance

window will appear and we can edit the parameters before placing them down. The resistors will look as shown below.

This is what our circuit looks like after it has been completely laid out with input and output labels as well:

After launching ADE L to simulate what our circuit will do and selecting what outputs should be

shown during the simulation, this should be what is on your screen. Notice the transient analysis

will be for 1 second and the input and output voltages will be displayed. 

The graph given in the simulation is what we can expect from this simple voltage divider. The input voltage is a 1V DC source

and a voltage divider with resistors of the same value will cause exactly half of the voltage to drop over the first resistor. This is shown by the output being half of the input voltage: 1V/2 = 0.5V

My files will be stored in my Google Drive account with a separate folder for each lab. Within the lab folder, not only will the .htm file and images be stored in Drive, but the work used in the lab will also be backed up in its own folder.

 
 
 
 
Here is an example of the contents of one of the folders with the named files. 
 
   

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