First Encounter Tutorial

Tutorials

• First Encounter "Counter" Tutorial - Introduction to place and route with a simple, flat design.

ECE 741 Spring 2003 Homework Sets

• Homework #1 - Review of Logic Synthesis
• Homework #2 - Performance Metrics, Scaling, Rent's Rule and Donath's Method
• Homework #3 - Wire-load models, Place & Route, Back-annotation, and Regular Expressions
• Homework #4 - Partitioning, Static Timing Analysis, False Paths
• Homework #5 - Comparing Steiner-Tree estimates with Actual routed length
• Homework #6 - Clock-Tree synthesis and verification
• Homework #7 - Hierarchical Design

Additional Documentation

• Cadence Encounter User Guide ( Windows, UNIX)
• First Encounter Workshops
  
  
  • Workshop 1 ( Windows, UNIX)
  • Workshop 2 ( Windows, UNIX)
  • Workshop 3 ( Windows, UNIX)
  • Workshop 4 ( Windows, UNIX)