CE 338: Digital VLSI Design (Laboratory), Fall 2025



Labs:
8/26, 
Lab 1 Design an R-2R DAC.
video, notes
9/2, Lab 2 Layout the R-2R DAC.
video
9/9, Lab 3 MOSFETs and IV Curves.
video
9/16, Lab 4 The Inverter.
9/23, Lab 5 Build a NAND, NOR, XOR, and Full Adder.
9/30,  Lab 6 Using Buses in ElectricVLSI.
10/7, Lab 7 Design a MUX, and a High-Speed Full Adder.
10/14, Lab 8 Design an 8-Bit ALU. (2-week lab)
10/21, Keep working on Lab 8.
10/28, Lab 9 Cadence Virtuoso 1 - 3
11/4, Lab 10 Cadence Virtuoso 4 - 7 (Tutorial 7 is on tsmc180, request Dropbox access if you have signed the NDA).
11/11, Lab 11 Cadence Virtuoso using the tsmc180nm PDK.
11/18, Lab 12 Cadence RTL to GDS flow










Links:

Download LTSpice here

**LtSpice is available in BH 570 and SFH 2771: Open My PC - C Drive - Program Files - LTC, you can find LTSpice there, right click on the icon, and create a shortcut onto your desktop.

The C5_models.txt file   


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