Authors Note

Hi,

My name is Harikrishna Kambala Subramanyam.
I'm a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. I'm most interested in the field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Systems) and would love to work in mixed-signal designs.

If you have taken/are taking any analog or digital circuits design course, you might have come across the term CADENCE. Chances are you might also be using one of it's many tools to design your circuits, simulate them, test them or layout your design.

CADENCE is one big CAD (Computer Aided Design) Tools Suite, and it integrates many smaller tools to give a "one stop shop" solution to all of your circuit design requirements.

In the following posts, I shall explain all the design steps and the small nuances in designing digital circuits by using the CADENCE tools.

The book I shall be referring to is called "Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools" by Dr. Erik Brunvand. I have been very fortunate to TA for his course CS/ECE 5710/6710 Digital VLSI Design taught here at the University of Utah. This is one of the main reason motivating me to write this blog series, is to get people comfortable with the CAD tools and to design VLSI chips. So, without much delay let our VLSI journey begin!!

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