Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cadence University Program

Introduction

Below is information about the Cadence software that is used at Iowa State University. For more information about the vendor or any of its other products, please visit the webpage.

ISU has been involved in teaching and research in the VLSI area for about 17 years. At the present time, there is substantial teaching and research in the areas of Analog and Mixed-Signal Design and Digital VLSI CAD. The Cadence design environment is the main tools that is used for those purposes.

The courses in this area are: EE434, EE435, EE465, EE501, EE505, EE507, EE508,  EE514, CprE 563, CprE 564, and CprE 566.
Faculty members associated with the VLSI program are professors Robert Weber, Randy Geiger, DeGang Chen and Chris Chu.

Tutorials

We provide tutorials used in EE434 that gradually introduce the student to the Cadence design environment at Iowa State University. All tuturials written at ISU by Imad Abbadi, Saqib Malik and Randy Geiger.

• Introduction to the Cadence design environment
• Pre-lab
• More Exercises: Boolean Circuits
• Layout vs. Schematic
• More Layouts. Pre-lab
• Bonding Pads
• MOS Devices Models
• More Layouts and Bonding Pads
• Hardware Description Languages: Verilog
• Placement and Routing: SOC Encounter
• http://class.ee.iastate.edu/ee434/labs/lab9.pdfSynthesis: Synopsys Design Analyzer

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