Tag: ic

  • ECE5505 Digital Test and Verification Notes Part II

    This blog serves as the 2nd and last part for the class ECE5505 Digital Test and Verification. D Flip Flop Delay/Data flip flop: The flip flop remains in its current state until its receives a signal like clock that switches it to opposite state. The clock single required for the synchronous version of D flip…

  • HotSpot Thermal Model Notes

    Introduction Hotspot has been released to its 7 iteration with multiple updates regarding accurate thermal simulation benchmark. Installation To increase the simulation speed, the SUPERLU package is needed, depending on the various distros with own specifiic package managers, the installation could be different. Once it is installed, hotspot could be compiled. SuperLU I prefer to…

  • Troubleshooting the “ERROR (ADE-3064): Could not find library containing the source specified by vbit in the reference library list analogLib” in Cadence

    Introduction:In the world of integrated circuit design, precision and accuracy are paramount. However, even the most experienced designers can encounter perplexing errors that seem to defy logic. One such issue that recently came to light is the enigmatic “ERROR (ADE-3064): Could not find library containing the source specified by vbit in the reference library list…

  • Troubleshooting the “ERROR (OSSHNL-116)” in Cadence Virtuoso

    Introduction:In the pursuit of mastering Cadence Virtuoso, I recently encountered a perplexing error message: “ERROR (OSSHNL-116): Unable to descend into any of the views defined in the view list, ‘hspiceD spice cmos_sch cmos.sch schematic’, for the instance ‘X’ in cell ‘Y’. Either add one of these views to the library ‘NCSU_Analog_Parts’, cell ‘res’ or modify…

  • Cadence Virtuoso Study Note (Part I): Environment Setup

    In this series of posts, I will provide some of the information that are needed to use Cadence Virtuoso so that people like you could get most of it. After a simple yet advanced search on google and restrict domain to *.edu, you could find some tutorials on virtuoso, like Berkeley, CMU, USC, VT, NCSU,…