Circuit Design/Analysis

Architect is a schematic-based system-level modeling environment used to quickly explore design alternatives and optimize performance at high accuracy. Designer is a physical design tool that contains a 2D layout editor, materials property editor and database, a process editor, as well as an automatic 3D model generator.

Who Uses CoventorWare?

Classes of:

Dean M Aslam
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

What is CoventorWare?

CoventorWare software is used in the design of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Coventor changed its company name from Microcosm in early 2001 and changed its Memcad product name to CoventorWare.

Where is CoventorWare?

CoventorWare version 2006 is available on all DECS machines.

Xilinx is a program used to code and design circuits in VHDL. Xilinx can be used with Model Sim to run simulations and tests on designed circuits.

Sonnet's suites of high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) Software are aimed at today's demanding design challenges involving predominantly planar (3D planar) circuits and antennas. Predominantly planar circuits include microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide, PCB (single and multiple layers) and combinations with vias, vertical metal sheets (z-directed strips), and any number of layers of metal traces embedded in stratified dielectric material.

The ECE Shop manages the installation of this program.

Synopsys products enable designers to create and verify complex integrated circuits and SoC designs from concept to silicon. Synopsys provides a complete front-to-back design and test environment, system-level to silicon-level verification, design reuse technology and professional services to help its customers get their silicon working quickly and accurately. NanoSim, HSpice, Taurus and Saber are among the tools.  The Electrical and Computer Engineering department uses these in some classes and research work as alternatives to the Cadence tools.

Cadence provides a number of packages for integrated circuit design and analysis and PCB design.