Modern industrial integrated-circuit-design CAD tools will be an integral part of this course. All students must have access to the CAD tool setup at Columbia.  This page contains relevant administrative information for all you need to do to get started with these tools.

Read the following :

• 1. You will use the workstations in the VLSI Lab in 1218 Mudd.
• 2. You need
  • Swipe/badge access to the lab
  • An active login ID
• 3. If you do not have these already (from earlier classes), please send me an e-mail to shepard@ee.columbia.edu.
• 4. Once you have succesfully logged in, there will be tutorials available later to guide you further through the CAD tools.

Guidelines for working in VLSI Lab : The Lab is managed by EE Department and they have some general guidelines which are to be followed strictly. Failure to comply by these rules generally results in permanent deletion of the account without much discussion. In all cases, it will be extremely difficult for the instructor or TA to restore the account.

• Do NOT bring any friends/visitors in the lab and let them use the machines on your account.
• The quota for each student is 80 MB. Therefore, it is important that you keep only relevant files in your home. In case, you genuinely need more space, consult the TA.
• Do NOT, under any circumstances, log on to the machine "casdserv2.cisl.columbia.edu". Its for use of system Administration purposes only.
• Do NOT fire huge printing jobs at the lab printer. Printers are for your convenience and printing anything other than HW or project files is NOT permitted. We have limited quota on the paper and we have to work within those limits. Also DO NOT try to print tool documentation. Such files are hundreds of pages.
• Do NOT reboot the machines. Several other people might have important jobs running on the same machine. Contact system adminitrators in case it hangs or freezes.
• System Adminitrator :
  • David Sussillo [sussillo@ee.columbia.edu]

Some Facts You need to know....

• The printer name is "vlsip". In order to print a file, type : lpr -Pvlsip file_name
• To log on remotely, use following machine names.
  • aegina.cisl.columbia.edu
  • syracuse.cisl.columbia.edu
  • nemea.cisl.columbia.edu
  • delphi.cisl.columbia..edu
  • marathon.cisl.columbia.edu
  • corinth.cisl.columbia.edu
  • thebes.cisl.columbia.edu
  • rhodes.cisl.columbia.edu
  • byzantium.cisl.columbia.edu
  • olympus.cisl.columbia.edu

  Only ssh access to the machines is allowed (for security reasons).  Telnet and rlogin cannot be used.

• Your default shell is "ksh". If you "really" hate this shell and want to use some different shell, send me an email.
• When working remotely, you need to set the display first. To do this , follow the following session on the computer you are sitting on :
  
  $ ssh -l user_name remote_machine_name
  prompted for password....type in
  
  Where "$" represents the command prompt and "mymachine" is the full name of the computer you are sitting on and "remote_machine_name" is any name from the list of names given above.
• All paths for CAD tools should be automatically set.

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