Tutorial Document for Analog Circuit Design

1. How to setup Cadence 446 and design kit.

1. Tutorial for setting up Cadence environment

setup445.pdf

Tutorial for inputting Schematic

Composer Tutorial.pdf

Tutorial for Simulating with Hspice

hspice.pdf

2. How to print your schematic and simulation result to postscritpt file

Install Plot File, download cdsplotinit to your cadence working directory, using textedit copy its content to a new file, then save as .cdsplotinit.

To plot your schematic file, in schematic-composer window, select FileàPlotàSubmit plot, then click the button “Plot options…” , click “Centre Plot” and “Fit to Page”, Selection of Plot Name depend on your need.

a) If you want to print a black & white ps file, select “Encapsulated_Postscript(EPS)”

b) To print your file to printer on Solaris lab, select “ljsol-SunOS”.

c) If you want to print a color file, select “lwee2”, as there is no color printer in Solaris lab, this option can only be used to print a ps color file.

d) If you want to print a ps a file instead of print out directly, select “Send Plot Only To File”, then input your file name with postfix .ps.

e) If you do not want to add header to your printing file, deselect “header” in Box “ Submit Plot”.

Some links of tutorials for Cadence

1. New Mexico State University

http://www.ece.nmsu.edu/vlsi/cadence/CADENCE%20Manual.pdf

2. Wochester Polytechnic University

http://vlsi.wpi.edu/cds

3. North Carolina State University

http://www.cadence.ncsu.edu/tutorial.html

4. This website gives many Cadence tutorial links can be found on internet

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sampath/cadence_tutorials.htm