Lab Directory - ECE 421L 

Brandon Staffieri

staffier@unlv.nevada.edu

August 23, 2021 - December 04, 2021

Lab 1 - Laboratory introduction, generating/posting html lab reports, installing and using Cadence

Lab 2 - Design of a 10–bit digital–to–analog converter (DAC)

Lab 3 - Layout of a 10–bit DAC

Lab 4 - IV characteristics and layout of NMOS and PMOS devices in ON's C5 process

Lab 5 - Design, layout, and simulation of a CMOS inverter

Lab 6 - Design, layout, and simulation of a CMOS NAND gate, XOR gate, and Full–Adder

Lab 7 - Using buses and arrays in the design of word inverters, muxes, and high-speed adders

Lab 8 - Generating a test chip layout for submission to MOSIS for fabrication

Final Project - Design a register file (RF) that uses 32 8-bit words accessed by a 5-bit address