© Imperial College LondonPage 1 4 th Year & MSc ASIC Lab Introduction Ben Cope 16 th 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 –4 th Years – Level 5 lab –MSc Students – Level 4 lab / Mahanakorn Lab What you need to install 1) Java Runtime Environment ( 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: File: electric 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: File: WinSpice exe Install Unzip latest WinSpice from website (File: WinSpice ) 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 ( 3) Extract Tcl/Tk to cygwin directory c:\cygwin ( n/archive/tcltk_x11.zip) 4) Extract Irsim to same directory ( n/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) e4_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/ cas.ee.ic.ac.uk/people/btc00/