Cadence Setup at UNCC

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Cadence University Program Member

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is pleased to be a member of the Cadence University Program, allowing students access to the latest Cadence design tools for computer aided design of integrated circuits. The Cadence suite enables students to design, layout and verify analog / digital circuits and systems as a part of courses offered in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UNC Charlotte. Some of the courses that use Cadence extensively are:

ECGR 4132/5132 Analog Integrated Circuit Design

ECGR 6263/8263 Advanced Analog IC Design

ECGR 6138 Physical Design of VLSI Systems

ECGR 6437 Mixed Signal VLSI

ECGR 6264 Radio Design

ECGR 6263/8263 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design

ECGR 6999 Master's Thesis

ECGR 8999 Doctoral Dissertation

Some Cadence notes for UNCC

New Cadence install instructions for Linux, Dr. Tom Weldon 7/28/09:

See note below if you used cadence before.

New users instructions:

on a linux terminal,
to install cadence NCSU librabries, run the following command line in a terminal window: /opt/coe/cds2008/ic5/cdk/ncsu13/local/cdssetup/cdsSetupLinux

to run cadence, enter the following commands:
    cd ~/cadence/NCSU
    source cadence_startup 
    icfb

Note for previous users of Cadence:
if you were a previous user of cadence on Solaris, you will have to first copy your old cadence/NCSU directory to your linux home directory, then move your old startup files to a safe place (.cdsenv .cdsinit .cdsdoc cds.lib .cdsplotinit cadence_startup). Then run the script above. then, open the new cds.lib file and copy any needed define statements from your old cds.lib file, making proper changes to adjust for the new linux location directory.

For more information see Dr. Weldon's page

Links to some Cadence tutorials:-

For instructions on how to create libraries and run simulations download the UNCC Cadence Tutorial authored by Adam Carlson