CADENCE HOW TO's, a guide to using CADENCE

• HOW TO get CADENCE up and running on your machine:
A quick and dirty explanation for those who have never used CADENCE before.
This site will help anyone get cadence up and running.
Updated 10/20/99
A note on libraries, and the important ones for MEMS
A quick and dirty explanation on how cadence deals with libraries
Updated 10/20/99
Creating new libraries and cells
Updated 10/20/99
HOW TO confidently cif in and cif out
Updated 10/20/99
HOW TO plot
Updated 10/20/99
HOW TO get a layout editor running in CADENCE:
Simple to do. This site will get the virtuouso layout editor running
and ready for your layout designs.
Updated 10/20/99
HOW TO update your technology file in CADENCE
If you are designing something, and the process technology changes, the
technology file should change too. This site will help you to keep up with
any changes. This is ONLY for CADENCE Super-Users.
Updated 12/18/96
A Guide to using SKILL to make Pcells do what you want.
If the Virtuoso editor won't let you put the features you
want in your Pcell, read this. It will help you master
the basics and do things you couldn't do with the graphical
editor.
Example SKILL files.
Updated 02/26/99
Extraction Steps and DRC (Design Rules Check) steps in Cadence.
How to extract circuit netlist from layout.
How to check whether your layout design satisfies all design rules
Updated 10/30/98
How to use NODAS in Cadence.
How to create schematic with NODAS libaries.
How to do simulation with NODAS libaries.
How to do automatic layout generation from schematic.
Updated 11/2/99
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