NCSU Cadence Design Kit

NC State University's Cadence environment has been customized with several technology files and a fair amount of custom SKILL code. These files contain information useful for analog/full-custom digital CMOS IC design via the MOSIS IC fabrication service. This information includes layer definitions (e.g. colors, patterns, etc.), parasitic capacitances, layout pcells, SPICE simulation parameters, Diva rules for DRC, extraction, and LVS verification, and various GUI enhancements. This environment is available as the NCSU Cadence Design Kit (NCSU CDK).

The NCSU CDK requires version 4.4 of the Cadence software toolset and is available free of charge as a service to the Cadence design community. You can read an overview of the CDK's contents, download the latest version of the CDK, or check out the patch list.

You can browse the CDK HTML documentation on-line. The CDK also includes additional help files for use with OpenBook which are not viewable via the Web. You also might want to read a (slightly out-of-date) paper and accompanying slides on the NCSU CDK that were presented at the 1998 International Cadence User Group Conference.

The original NCSU CDK was authored by Toby Schaffer, Alan Glaser, Andy Stanaski and Steve Lipa in 1996. Their good work has been sustained and continued by Stephen Mick and Guorong Ma. Support for this effort comes from DARPA, NSF, SRC, and the NCSU Analog Alliance .The effort is directed by Professor Paul Franzon

The current version number of the NCSU CDK is 1.4

Please email us any questions, comments, or suggestions you have regarding the CDK.

Last modified Wed Sep 22 11:54:04 EDT 2004