© Imperial College LondonPage 1

4th Year & MSc ASIC Lab Introduction

Ben Cope

benjamin.cope@imperial.ac.uk

16th October 2006

© Imperial College LondonPage 2

Overview

• Lab Logistics

• Software Installation

• Lab Exercises

© Imperial College LondonPage 3

Lab Logistics

• Drop in session

• Bring Laptops (if possible)

• Room – Mahanakorn Lab (MSc Lab)– Level 9 – turn right out on elevator then to end of

corridor

• Times– Wednesday 14:00-15:30– Thursday 14:00-15:30

© Imperial College LondonPage 4

Software Installation

• Rooms with software– 4th Years – Level 5 lab– MSc Students – Level 4 lab / Mahanakorn Lab

• What you need to install1) Java Runtime Environment

(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html)

2) Electric – Design Software

3) WinSpice – Windows version of spice simulator

4) Cygwin, TCL/Tk, Irsim – Simulation (Lab 2 onwards)

© Imperial College LondonPage 5

Electric Installation

• Link: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/electric/

• File: electric-8.04.1.jar

• Save to Location: c:\Electric

• Run using Java Runtime Environment

• Notes: Make sure any file names or folder names you use do not contain spaces

© Imperial College LondonPage 6

WinSpice

• Link: http://www.ousetech.co.uk/winspice2

• File: WinSpice1.05.01.exe

• Install

• Unzip latest WinSpice from website (File: WinSpice1.05.08) to Installation directions (e.g. C:\Program Files\OuseTech\WinSpice)

© Imperial College LondonPage 7

Cygwin Etc…

1) Remove any previous cygwin installations 2) Install latest cygwin with X11

(http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe)3) Extract Tcl/Tk to cygwin directory c:\cygwin

(http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/%7Etim/programs/cygwin/archive/tcltk_x11.zip)

4) Extract Irsim to same directory (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/%7Etim/programs/cygwin/archive/irsim_tcl.zip)

5) Restart computer before running cygwin

© Imperial College LondonPage 8

Lab Exercises

• Complete in own time – home or lab

• Come to lab only if questions

• May help to work in small groups – But each of you must complete it

• Three Labs

• Homepage (note FAQ Page) http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/pcheung/teaching/ee4_asic/index.html

© Imperial College LondonPage 9

Summary

• Lab: Wed/Thurs 14:00-15:30 (Level 9)

• Software: Follow instructions carefully

• Lab Exercises: Do in advance of labs

• My homepage/email: cas.ee.ic.ac.uk/people/btc00/ benjamin.cope@imperial.ac.uk