ECE 558/658 VLSI Design Principles
TA Page
1. Announcements (look up last announcement for info
on working directory)
3. ECS Account Requirements (Important)
5. CAD
Tools
6. Homework
9. Useful Links
Back to the course home
page
§ Teaching
Assistants:
§ Basab
Datta: bdatta@ecs.umass.edu
§ Ibis Benito ( VIP ): ibenito@ecs.umass.edu
§ TA
Office Hours:
|
TA |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
Basab Datta |
4:00-7:00 pm |
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4:00-7:00 pm |
ECS Account Requirements (Important)
§ You
must have an account on ECS. If you don’t have an ECS account, contact ECS
§ In
the previous years, you had to request /mnt2/username space to run Cadence and
Synopsys tools, because the home directory of each account was only 50MB. Now
ECS has a new terabyte file server. As a result, your home directory is 500MB.
This means you do not need /mnt2/username space.
§ How
to use Cygwin from ECS Microsoft Windows machines to run X-application on ECS
UNIX machines.
§
Tutorial for beginners
- Covers basic commands for listing files, making/changing/removing
directories, copying/moving/removing files, displaying file contents on screen,
changing file access rights
§ CAD tool setup: Before using CAD tools, you have to setup
CAD tool environments. (Important)
§ CAD based design: General information.
§ Design flow: Recommended
Starting place for detailed design flow information
§ Homework
5
§ Lab 1: Designing and simulating a CMOS gate
§ Lab 2: Designing a simple sequential circuit (e.g. one-bit
accumulator)
§ Lab 3: Learning about regular datapath structures: Design and
simulation of a 4-bit accumulator
§ Lab
4: Final project: 558 , 658 = your choice
§ Exam 1
§ Exam 2