I want to design MOSFET layout in cadence

[Arrowspace]

I want to design MOSFET layout in cadence, how can I start?

 

[erikl]

• Read the Cādence doc coming with the software
• Read the Cādence Online Documentation: View attachment Using_Cadence_Online_Documentation.pdf
• Use Cādence Help
• Check the various tutorials found in the net, e.g. this one: View attachment Cadence_Virtuoso_Layout_Editor.pdf
• Study the **broken link removed** which can be found in the net

 

[dick_freebird]

When you say "design" do you mean simply demonstrate,
or optimize to the foundry's capability and the application
you anticipate? Anybody can make a poly rectangle cross
a thin-oxide cut and lay N+ or P+ over it and sink a
contact on both ends. This is the trivial part. Modern
MOS devices have much subsurface detail which has
to do with both mask layers (sometimes Boolean and not
seen by the designer) and process (angled implants, hard
masking spacers, etc.).

So just what do you think you're "designing" here?

 

[Arrowspace]

Thanks for replay , actually I am not getting Virtuoso Layout Editor in my cadence

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I am using 16.3 version

 

[erikl]

Thanks for replay , actually I am not getting Virtuoso Layout Editor in my cadence

To design MOSFET layout in cadence, you need the Virtuoso Layout Editor (or Virtuoso XL).

I am using 16.3 version

Of which software?

 

[Arrowspace]

Cadance 16.3

 

[erikl]

Cadance 16.3

Cādence provides quite a lot of software packages, not only in Circuit Design, and even for semiconductor layout there are several packages.

Perhaps you could be a bit more specific?

 

[Arrowspace]

looking for IC design software

 

[erikl]

Thinking twice, I guess you thought of . It should include the layout software ... if you have access to the corresponding license.

 

[Arrowspace]

I have candence 16.3 it is possible to design IC in it?