VLSI CAD Tools

Tools : Magic IRSIM HSPICE PowerView Verilog PLA Tools Cadence Synopsys Spice 3 Mentor Alliance

Magic

Magic Homepage (at Digital) - Official Web for Magic, download, etc.
Magic HomePage (at Berkeley) - Magic On-Line Manual & Tutorial
Magic Handout (from Fall99 EE577A) (ps and pdf) - by Sangyun Kim
Magic Tutorial-Inverter Layout - for the very beginners by Jay Moon
Magic Tutorial2-Hierarchical Layout - by Jay Moon
PPLOT - Magic Layout Plotting and its manpage - for plotting of your layout

IRSIM

IRSIM Manual PS format and PDF format
IRSIM Tutorial (from Stanford) - by Ted Williams
IRSIM Handout from Fall99 EE577A (ps and pdf) - by Sangyun Kim

HSPICE

Digital Circuit Simulation Using HSPICE - by C. Kime at U of Wisconsin
HSPICE Basics (from Stanford)
HSPICE Handout from Fall99 EE577A (ps and pdf) - by Sangyun Kim
Complete HSpice manual (.pdf).
On-line HSpice manual available via the command ~ee577/bin/get_hspice_help which if you have a web browser window open will take it over and re-direct you to the on-line hspice manual.

PowerView

PowerView Help Page (at UNCC)
Introduction to PowerView (ps and pdf) - by Prof. Puvvada
PowerView Tutorial - Inverter Schematic & Symbol - for the analog entry in PV by Jay Moon

Verilog-XL

Verilog for Behavioral Modeling (ps and pdf) - Lecture note of Verilog by Dr. Tzartzanis

Verilog Behavioral Modeling Ref Manual (ps and pdf) - sampled from Cadence online manual
Verilog-XL Tutorial (ps and pdf) - sampled from Cadence online manual
A neat verilog tutorial that runs on PC's is available for free from a company called Aldec. (See Aldec's home page for more details.)

PLA Tools

Eqntott(Truth Table Generator from Boolean Equations)

Espresso(Boolean Minimizer)

Espresso Manual

MPLA(Technology Independent PLA Generator)

MPLA Manual

Cadence

Setup Tutorial (08/30/2004)
To view on-line Cadence help after setup, all you need to do is run cdsdoc on your Unix command line. This should open up a window that will allow you to peruse all available on-line documentation for Cadence. It is quite useful!
Cadence Tutorial0- Cadence Tutorial - 8-bit Adder Schematic & Symbol (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial1 - Schematic Entry for Basic Gate (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial2 - Schematic Entry for 8-bit Adder (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial3 - Running Verilog-XL Simulation (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial4 - Simulating a Schematic with Verilog-XL (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial4 (extension) - Using simWaves in Integration Control (02/02/2000)
Cadence Tutorial5 - Comparing Verilog-XL Simulation (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial6 - Verilog-XL Simulation for Dymanic Logic (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial7 - Generating HSPICE Netlist from Schematic (pdf) (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial8 - Symbol Editing and Verilog Association (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial9 - Automatic Symbol Generation from Verilog and Schematic (01/20/2000)
Cadence Tutorial10 - Integrating the design with testbench (02/02/2000)
Magic Setup for TSMC 0.25 um (04/08/2000)

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