Computer Aided Design Laboratory

Contact Person: Jenny Chen
Location: Room 281, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 123, ESE 124,  ESE 118, ESE 271, ESE 272, ESE 300, ESE 305, ESE 306,  ESE 315,  ESE 324, ESE 337, ESE 345, ESE 346,  ESE 358, ESE 273, ESE 280, ESE 381,ESE 382, ESE 440, ESE 441, ESE 475, ESE 476, ESE 499

The Electrical & Computer Engineering Computer Aided Design Laboratory is the primary computing resource for all undergraduate courses taught in the department. The ECE CAD Lab offers undergraduate students access to CAD software tools used to analyze, model, simulate, and better understand engineering concepts. The lab supports every undergraduate course in the department.

The lab has a total of 42 Windows based Dell PC's, 1 Mac Mini, 2 Linux based machines (Ubuntu, Rocket), that are networked via switched ethernet to a Dell file server. There is one network laser printer available for students to print their results.

The following software packages are available to the users on the network:

• • Cadence LDV (VHDL and Verilog)
  • Matlab with three toolboxes - The Mathworks Inc.
  • Aldec Active HDL – Aldec
  • Synplicity Pro – Synopsis
  • Microsoft Visual Studio IDE C, C++ - Microsoft
  • Dev C++ IDE - Embarcadero Technologies
  • XCode (Mac Mini) - Apple
  • Microsoft Office - Microsoft
  • Pspice Capture, Pspice A/D – Cadence
  • Autodesk Fusion 360
  • Pycharm
  • CodeBlocks
  • Microchip Studio
  • MPLAB X IDE with AVR Development tools
  • Wolfram Mathematics
  • LTSpice
  • Python
  • ModelSim