EE455 Cadence Tutorial, part I

Cadence Inverter Tutorial 1 ECE 455 Cadence Tutorial, part I Introduction to Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Composer 1.0 Introduction The purpose of the first lab tutorial is to help you become familiar with the schematic editor, Virtuoso Schematic Composer. You will create a schematic and a symbol for a static CMOS inverter. After completion of this tutorial, you should be able to: • Insert instances into your design • Connect instances together using wires • Change instance properties • Name nets • Add pins to your design • Create and edit a symbol cellview • Check and save your design • Be comfortable in Cadence Schematic Environment 2.0 Getting Started • Read the Cadence setup document • Screenshots in this document was obtained from running Cadence in Mandrake Linux 10 Kernel 2.6.3-15 system using KDE, XFree86 4.3. 3.0 Online Documentation Note that this tutorial and the following series cover only the very fundamental concepts of creating CMOS schematics, symbols and layouts, simulating circuits, performing layout verification and parasitic extraction from layout using Cadence. Please refer to the online documentation should you require additional information. • To access the online Cadence documentation menu tree, type cdsdoc in any UNIX Solaris window or click on Help Cadence Documentation in the upper right corner of any Cadence window. Note, if you do remote X session, some of this would not work if you don’t have a default ...