EE141: Digital Integrated Circuits
Fall 2005

TuTh 11-12:30, 203 McLaughlin

Labs

This semester, we will discontinue the use of the Micromagic tool set, and use uniquely tools from Cadence. The Cadence tools are definitely more suited for the state-of-the-art technologies of today. For more information about setting up and running Cadence on the instructional machines, see: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/usr/pub/cadence.help

The SPICE homepage contains on-line versions of the SPICE manuals and user guides. Information on the different versions of SPICE that are available on the instructional machines and where they can be found, is available on the following web-page: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/usr/pub/hspice.help

An online PDF version of the HSPICE manual can be found here (access restricted to instructional accounts), but beware that this is a 10MB file and contains over 1700 pages! Printed manuals will be available in the 353 lab shortly. For more info on how to run HSPICE, check with the department's help pages.

The IRSIM manuals are now also available online. Information on how to run IRSIM can be found in http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/usr/pub/irsim.help

For more information on various issues related to the instructional computers and the available software, please check http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/usr/pub

FIRST TIME USERS!!! Environment Settings for Exceed
General information on how to optimally set up your environment to run Cadence and other very useful tips. NEW!
Lab 1: Circuit Simulation (Word | PDF)
Lab 2: Layout editing with Virtuoso (Word | PDF) Virtuoso tutorial (html)
Lab 3: CMOS inverters and NAND gates (Word | PDF) Composer tutorial (Word | PDF)
Lab 4: Circuit Extraction (Word | PDF)
Lab 5: Switch level simulation (Word | PDF)
Lab 6: Interconnect - Buffer Design (Word | PDF)