Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (archive)

Cadence University Program

Introduction

Below is information about the Cadence software used at Iowa State University. For more information about the vendor or any of its other products, please visit the Cadence Web site.

Iowa State has been involved in teaching and research in the VLSI area for more than 20 years. Currently, there is substantial teaching and research in the areas of analog and mixed-signal design and digital VLSI CAD. The Cadence design environment incorporates the main tools that are used for those purposes.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers the following courses in this area: EE 330, EE 435, EE 465, EE 501, EE 505, EE 507, EE 508,  EE 514, CprE 563, CprE 564, and CprE 566.

Faculty members associated with the VLSI program are Chris Chu, Degang Chen, Ayman Fayed, Randall Geiger, Nathan Neihart, and Robert Weber. Learn more about the VLIS research group.

Tutorials

For tutorial on the Cadence design enivronment at Iowa State University, please refer to the EE 434 course Web site.

Updated 6/23/2011