Cadence University Program Member

University of Manitoba

• Cadence software in action at The University of Manitoba

  Cadence software is being used at the University of Manitoba in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering.

  • Courses

    • ECE4600 Group Design Project: The engineering curriculum must culminate in a significant design experience which is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and which preferably gives students an exposure to the concepts of team work. A research project may be interpreted as engineering design provided it can be clearly shown that the elements of design, as noted in the definition, are fulfilled in the completion of the project. (60 students/year)

  • Research Projects

    • Md. Obaej Tareq (Ph.D.)

      Olfactory Chemical Sensors

    • Dilruba Zaman Jeba (M.Sc.)

      MEMs based ultrasonic Transducers

    • Gustavo Belo (Ph.D.)

      Advanced Materials and Devices for CMOS applications

    • Auxence Minko (Res. Assoc)

      Advanced Materials and Devices for CMOS applications

    • Arezoo Emadi (post doc)

      MEMs based ultrasonic Transducers

    • Moses Teong Sen Tan

      BICMOS: Used Bicmos Technology to design a device to perform sampling at high frequency for chip diagnostic purposes. This device includes a pulse generator, two investor chains for delaying purposes, a NAND gate and a drive pad capable of driving 500pf output load. Click here to see the project designed.

      NT25: Used NT25 Technology to design pattern conductors for testing a new IDDQ technique. It contains four transmission lines of different widths, from minimum width to six times minimum width. Each transmission line is banded into two kinds of patterns, one of them having minimum spacing, the other with spacing of typical distance between two transmission lines of a bicmos transistor. Click here to see the project designed.

      GaAs Technology-10Ghz Voltage Controlled Oscillator: Using GaAs to design a 10Ghz VCO. Turning rage is from 9Ghz to 11Ghz. With 3 V bias it produce an output voltage of 0.6 V peak to peak. It will be use in our E.F.M. lab as an 10GHz pulse generator. Click here to see the project designed.

      GaAs Technology-5.7Ghz Voltage Controlled Oscillator:Using GaAs to design a 5.7Ghz VCO. turning rage is from 5Ghz to 6Ghz. With 3 V bias it produce an output voltage of 0.5 V peak to peak. It will be use in our E.F.M. lab as an 5.7GHz pulse generator. Click here to see the project designed.

    • Sunny Ping San Cheung

      IGBMB016: An 1.98GHz GaAs amplifier designed with a 13.5dB gain and matching circuits. Additional small pads are added for available access for testing using Electrostatic Force Microscopy. Click here to see the project designed.

      IGBMB017: An 1 Gbit/s digital GaAs inverter designed for testing using Electrostatic Force Microscopy. Click here to see the project designed.

    • Ruifeng Zhai

      Near Field Electromagnetic Probes (IMBMB014) : Three micromachined electromagnetic near field probes are being implemented. A piezoresistive deflection sensor is used to measure the deflection of the cantilever. Click here to see the project designed.

      Near Field Electromagnetic Probes (IMBMB015) Three micromachined scanning probes and some circuits used for high frequency circuit diagnostics and analysis. Click here to see the project designed.

      Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) A Low-Noise Amplifier using Nortel's 25 GHz Bipolar (NT25) technology was submitted. This design was taken from the RF library and will be used for testing using our EFM probing instrument. Click here to see the project submitted.

• Value-added items:

  • Kaijian(Jane) Cao

    Design of Single Chemical Sensors (ICDMB001): It is to design a programmable and highly sensitive sensor structure by using the standard Cmosp35 technology. Click here to see the top layer designed. Click here to see the mask designed.

  • Behraad Bahreyni

    Design of a Torsional Resonator : These are electrostatic torsional resonators which were made in MUMPs technology. Applying an ac voltage to one of the pads will bring the device into resonance, while the other pad produces an electrical signal. The mechanical structure is designed in a way that the sensor resonant frequency is sensitive to a dc bias. Click here to see the project submitted.

    Design of Microsensors: This is the layout of a magnetic field sensor with frequency modulated output. The MUMPs technology has been used. Click here to see the layout of designed sensor.

    Chip Fabricated in MicraGEM Process:This chip contains numerous designs for sensors, test structures, and actuators.Click here to see chip1.Click here to see chip2.

    High Frequency Charge Pump Design: This is a charge pump for use as an integrated part of RF phase-locked-loop circuits. The output current of the charge pump is continuous, which reduces the amount of spurious signals in the output spectrum of the PLL. Click here to see the project submitted.

  • Alireza Motieifar

    Design of Ultra Wideband Mixers: In this project, the aim is to design a mixer for Ultra WideBand applications. The first step is by using Cmosp18 technology to design a mixer with the operation frequency range of about 1-10 Ghz. The second step is to design mixers with much broader bands by using other fabrication technologies, such as SiGe. Click here to see the schematic of the designed mixer.