ENGR338 Lab Spring 2021
Lab 7: Using Buses in ElectricVLSI
Scott Orban

SJOrban@fortlewis.edu

Introduction
The purpose of this lab was to learn how to use buses to create multi-bit logic devices using Electric VLSI
and simulate them using LTspice.

Materials and Methods
The circuits were built using Electric VLSI and simulated using LTSpice .

Results

Figure 1: Basic Ring Oscilator schematic and simulation.


Figure 2: Ring oscilator with bus schematic and simulation
.


Figure 3:
Ring oscilator layout.


Figure 4: AND gate schematic.


Figure 5: 8-bit AND gate simulation 1.


Figure 6: 8-bit AND gate simulation 2.


Figure 7: AND gate layout.


Figure 8: 8-bit AND gate layout.


Figure 9: OR gate schematic.


Figure 10: OR gate simulation.


Figure 11: OR gate layout.


Figure 12: 8-bit OR gate with bus schematic.


Figure 13: 8-bit OR gate with bus simulation.


Figure 14: 8-bit OR gate layout.


Figure 15: 8-bit NOR gate with bus schematic.


Figure 16: 8-bit NOR gate layout.


Figure 17: 8-bit NOR gate with bus simulation.


Figure 18: 8-bit NAND gate schematic with bus.


Figure 19: 8-bit NAND gate layout.


Figure 20: 8-bit NAND gate simulation.
Discussion
The schematics and layouts matched and were error free, and the simulation values were as expected.