Lab 1 - ECE 421L 

Authored by Tyler Huddleston, huddle10@unlv.nevada.edu

8/30/2016

In this lab I will follow Tutorial 1 to design and simulate a simple voltage divider using Cadence.  The purpose of this lab is to become more familiar with Cadence and MobaXterm.

Part 1

I first set up Cadence and MobaXterm on my laptop, following the instructions here and I did not run into any issues.  Per the prelab, I obtained access to my CMOSedu account and studied the instructions for editing webpages here.

With all the software set up, I followed Tutorial 1 to construct the R_div schematic in Cadence, making use of the i bindkey to add instances to the schematic.

I continued the tutorial to simulate the R_div circuit.  The simulation plots a 1 second transient analysis for the input and output.

As expected for a voltage divider of two resistors with the same values, the output voltage is half of the input voltage.

Part 2

I will be saving my files on my (1) MobaXterm account, (2) my hard-drive, and (3) backing them up on my Dropbox account.

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