General Information
The Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz is licensed for Level 1 of the Cadence University Software Bundles. This licensing is generously provided by Cadence Design Systems University Program at substantial educational discount. University licensing provides Baskin School of Engineering faculty and students access to the Cadence Design Software products listed below. Note that this page only contains information about Cadence products only; please refer to the appropriate software support page for information about other vendors' software.
The School currently supports the use of Cadence Software products on the Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Use of other operating systems is not supported nor recommended.
Technical Assistance
DO NOT contact Cadence Design Systems directly - all questions and requests must be submitted via the official site technical liaisons. Cadence Design Systems provides the software at a generous discount provided the site technical liaisons handle all questions and requests.
Should you have any questions related to the use of Cadence Design Systems Software, please send them to help@soe.ucsc.edu. Please note in the subject line that your request is related to Cadence software.
E-Mail Questions and Problems: | help@soe.ucsc.edu |
Primary Technical Liaison: | Bob Burns |
Secondary Technical Liaison: | Jose Renau |
University Licensing Professor: | Jose Renau |
Course and Research Lab Use
Cadence software is used by the Baskin School of Engineering in a number of labs and classes. Should you wish to learn about practical usage of Cadence products, please contact the faculty, researchers and students in these courses and labs. This web page describes only how Cadence products are utilized at the Baskin School of Engineering and does not provide detailed instructions on how to use the tools themselves.
Cadence software products are often used in the following classes. This is a partial listing, as courses in the School of Engineering are constantly updated. Recommended courses for an introduction to some of the Cadence products include Computer Engineering 174 and Computer Engineering 222.
Undergraduate Courses
- Electrical Engineering 070/L - Introduction to Electronic Circuits
- Electrical Engineering 115- Introduction to Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Design
- Electrical Engineering 123A- Senior Thesis - Electrical Engineering Design I
- Electrical Engineering 123B - Senior Thesis - Electrical Engineering Design I
- Electrical Engineering 171/L - Analog Electronics
- Computer Engineering 121/L - Microprocessor System Design
- Computer Engineering 123A - Senior Thesis / Computer Engineering Design I
- Computer Engineering 123B - Senior Thesis / Computer Engineering Design II
- Computer Engineering 170 - Circuits, Devices and Systems
- Computer Engineering 174 - Introduction to EDA Tools
Graduate Courses
- Electrical Engineering 211 - Introduction to Nanotechnology
- Electrical Engineering 215 - Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Design
- Electrical Engineering 221 - Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
- Computer Engineering 221 - Advanced Microprocessor Design
- Computer Engineering 222 - VLSI Digital System Design
- Computer Engineering 223 - VLSI System On a Chip design
- Computer Engineering 226 - Computer-Aided Analysis of Electrical Circuits
- Computer Engineering 227 - Advances in Computer-Aided Synthesis of VLSI Circuits
Cadence products are used in the following School of Engineering faculty research labs:
- Biometric Microelectronic Systems Engineering Research Center (BMES ERC)
- Advanced Integrated Electronics Research Group
- Computer Aided Design Lab
- Kestrel Parallel Processor
- Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems Lab
- Micro-Architecture Santa Cruz
SPB/OrCAD Self-Serve Installation
Users can install OrCAD themselves using the following instructions. These steps assume you have administrator rights on your system. If you do not have local administrator rights you will not be able to install OrCAD. If you are on a supported BSOE computer and do not have administrator rights, you should request help with the installation through the IT Request ticketing system.
- In a web browser, connect to https://software.soe.ucsc.edu/bsoe/cadence and log in with your CruzID Blue credentials
- If you are not able to access that location but you are enrolled in a BSOE course or are otherwise affiliated with BSOE, please e-mail help@soe.ucsc.edu for assistance.
- You will see a set of files including an installation.txt file with installation instructions; please refer to that file for installation steps
- When installation has completed you can freely delete the installation files that you downloaded
Please note that if you are not on the BSOE network, either because you are off campus or in another part of campus, you will also need to connect to the UCSC VPN service before you will be able to check out a license and run Cadence software.
Specific Product Licensing
Please see this PDF for a full list of Cadence software available through the University Program.
Disclaimers
Information is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind. No statement is made and no attempt has been made to examine the information, either with respect to interoperability, origin, authorship, or otherwise. Please use this information at your own risk. We recommend using it on a copy of your data to be sure you understand what it does under your conditions. Keep your master intact until you are satisfied with the use of this information within your environment.
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Page last updated 6/17/19.