Engineering Applications
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About
The ECE department provides several engineering applications, available for academic research and course work only. To use these applications you need an active ECE LRC account, as well as local or remote access to one of our computer labs.
Running Applications
All of the engineering applications are initialized using the module command. For example, if you wish to run a software package called foo you would type the following command in your shell:
module load foo
Please refer to the documentation below for any specific instructions for the various software packages.
Advance Design System (ADS)
Running ADS
This software is only available on our Solaris machines. First log onto one of them then excute the commands:
module load ads ads &
Cadence
We have Cadence 2004 and Cadence 2007 available for use; currently, the default is 2007. We strongly recommend that you use the latest version as the 2004 version will be going away soon. This version is still available only to allow students and faculty to complete existing, version 2004 projects. All new projects should be started with the 2007 version.
Running Cadence
To run the latest version of Cadence, use the following commands:
module load cadence virtuoso &
For further help on running Cadence, including information about running older versions and converting from the CDB database to the OA database, please refer to the setting up the Cadence environment documentation.