Cadence University Program Member
The University of Waterloo is a member of the Cadence University Program and this web page will outline how Cadence products are used on our campus. This web page only describes the courses and research projects that use Cadence products, other software may also be used but that is irrelevant to the topic of this page. Remember: Cadence is the name of a company - students do not "learn Cadence", they learn about Cadence products.
Cadence tools are used in undergraduate and graduate courses to demonstrate the principles involved in integrated circuit design.
Undergraduate Courses
- ECE 445: Integrated Digital Electronics (Digital IC)
- ECE 444: Integrated Analog Electronics (Custom IC)
- ECE 455: Embedded Software (Custom IC)
Graduate Courses
- ECE 636: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
- ECE 637: Design of VLSI MOS Integrated Circuits
- ECE 734: Low-Voltage CMOS/BiCMOS VLSI Circuits and Systems
- ECE 730 Topic 15: High-Performance Integrated Circuits
- ECE 738: Low Power VLSI Circuits for Wireless Communication
- ECE 740: Topics in CMOS Sensor Microsystems
Research
- Mark Aagaard (Digital IC)
We use Cadence First Encounter for physical synthesis, timing analysis, and power analysis for cryptographic and other circuits. - Slim Boumaiza, Emerging Radio Systems Research Group (Custom IC, Digital IC)
Our group uses Cadence tools to simulate and implement radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) for high-performance and reconfigurable wireless transmitters. This covers in particular and not exclusively:- Fully digital pulse width modulator for reconfigurable transmitter
- Digitally controlled 60GHz phase shifter
- High efficiency integrated power amplifiers
- Vincent Gaudet (Custom IC, Digital IC)
Cadence tool are used in the following projects:- Design of energy-efficient analog and digital integrated circuits
- Design of integrated circuits for forward error control (LDPC and Turbo codes) in modern communication systems
- Design of biomedical circuits for implantable neural recording prostheses
- Karim Karim (Custom IC, Digital IC)
Cadence tools are used in the following projects:- Selective photon counting pixel and pixel gamma and x-ray photon imaging arrays
- Direct detection CMOS active and passive pixel sensor arrays
- Amorphous silicon multi-mode pixel amplifiers
- Amir Khandani (Custom IC)
Cadence tools are used to implement a decoder for LDPC codes. - Peter Levine, Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory (Custom IC, SPB(PCB))
We are using Cadence software to design CMOS-integrated circuits and sensors for DNA, protein, and cellular assays. - John Long (Custom IC, SPB(PCB))
Cadence products are used in analog and mixed-signal IC design, low-power and broadband transceiver design (RFICs) for highly integrated wireless applications, energy-efficient wireless sensor design, mm-wave integrated circuit design (MMICs), and the design of electronics for high-speed data communications systems.
My students will probably also use it for EM simulation (via ADS Dynamic Link or Integrand software) and PCB layout (Allegro). - Raafat Mansour (Custom IC, SPB(PCB))
Cadence tools are used to implement the following:- Multi-band CMOS amplifiers with adaptive MEMS impedance matching networks
- Integrated CMOS-MEMS devices for radio-frequency applications including varactors, tunable filters and RF-MEMS switches
- Manoj Sachdev (Custom IC)
Cadence products are being used to design, simulate and layout digital and mixed-signal circuits for low power, high performance applications. - Lan Wei (Custom IC)
Cadence tools are being used for digital, analog and mixed-signal circuit simulation with CMOS and other emerging device technologies.
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