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Cadence Tutorials:

Research Projects:

    Energy Harvesting

    Doppler Pulse Flow meter

    High-Speed FPGA

    High-Q Inductor Analysis, Modeling and Simulation.

Classes:

ECE 721 Introduction to CMOS circuit. circuit characterization and performance estimation, CMOS circuit and logic design, CMOS testing.

Important Setting of Cadence:

CDS_INST_DIR=/cad/cds/ICXXX

CDS_LOAD_ENV=CWD

CDS_LOG_PATH=$HOME

CDS_LIC_FILE=5280@XXX.XXX.XXX

CDS_Netlisting_Mode=Analog

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

In order to run Cadence on Fedora, following settings have to be set asimenv.startup cds_ade_wftool string "awd" (This will enable the AWD window instead of wavescan)

libInit.il file of the bicmos7HP has to be modified to support IC5.1 (only 5.0 was supported)

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Last update Sep 23, 2011