Tutorial Help for Cadence

• Getting Started
• Creating Design Libraries
• Functional Level Schematics
• Layout Editing: Inverter Tutorial
• Design Rule Checking
• Cell Extraction
• Creating a Netlist (currently broken)
• Cell Abstraction
• Creating Symbols
• Design Schematics
• Abstract Cells for Silicon Enselble
• Automatic Placement and Routing
• Simulating the design with IRSIM



• Common Problems and Solutions

We're still working on incorporating simulation into our Cadence design flow. For now you can import your designs into Magic in CIF format (File->Export->CIF in Cadence) and use the simulation flow designed for Magic. Worcester Polytechnic Institute has developed a great tutorial that includes simulation (and everything else), but a few more bugs need to be fixed in our installation before we can do the same.

Much of the material for this tutorial was drawn from tutorials at other schools. Many thanks to the following:

• Cadence
• Mosis
• UC Berkeley
• Virginia Tech
• North Carolina State University
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• University of Washington

This tutorial was prepared by Teresa Watkins Haunsperger, Rice class of 2002. Update July 2016