ECE 733 Digital Electronics
Spring 2009
Resources
The following resources are likely to be useful to you during this class:
- Spice Tips . As prepared and used in ECE 546.
- Power measurement in Spice . Also from ECE 546.
- A listing of free Spice tools can be found at http://www.duncanamps.com/spicesim.html
- Tutorials on schematic capture, and simulation can be found at ww.eda.ncsu.edu
Please note the following:
- Two methods are presented on the Cadence tutorials – using Analog Artist or using Hspice and Awaves . Either is fine but in general, Analog Artist is the more powerful environment.
- Awaves does not work on linux boxes.
Course Advice
Advice on how to structure your MS degree in IC design can be found at www.ece.ncsu.edu/armm
Remote Tool Access
Details on how to access EOS computers remotely can be found at : http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/remoteaccess/
You will need to be running Linux, Solaris, or X-win. A copy of X-win32 can be downloaded from http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/software/ .
Running Virtuoso remotely is tolerable if using the Virtual Computing Lab resources. You have to schedule time on a single host. All the scheduling is automated. For more info, check out https://vcl.ncsu.edu/scheduling/index.php
EOL students wishing to have remote "lab sessions" with the TA, need to install a copy of Elluminate, available at http://distance.ncsu.edu/course_technologies/cms/elluminate.html