Welcome to the home page of the Cadence Users Group at University of Massachusetts Amherst. UMass-Amherst is a participant in the University Software Program of Cadence design systems. The Cadence suite of EDA software is managed and distributed by ECS, the Engineering Computing Services at UMass-Amherst. These tools are for use by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as part of course-work and/or academic research.

Courses using Cadence

ECE658 VLSI Design Principles
ECE 659 Advanced VLSI Design Project
ECE 697IC Analog VLSI Design

Research Groups using Cadence

· Advanced VLSI Design and Testing Lab (led by Prof Sandip Kundu)

· VLSI Circuits and Systems Group (led by Prof Wayne Burleson)

· Reconfigurable Computing Group (led by Prof Russell Tessier)

· Laboratory for Microwave and Millimeterwave Devices and Applications (led by Prof R. W. Jackson)

· Center for Biological Systems and Signal Processing (led by Prof. Paul Siqueira, Adj. Prof. Dev Gupta)

· Center for Wireless Communication (led by Prof. Dennis Goeckel, Adj. Prof. Dev Gupta)

· RF Nanoelectronics (led by Prof. J. Bardin)

· Biomedical Electronics Laboratory (led by Prof. Christopher Salthouse)

· Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (led by Profs. Steve Frasier and Paul Siqueira)

Professors with Affiliated Research

· Joseph C. Bardin, Assistant Professor. Expertise: RF/AMS CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS design, low-noise circuits, adaptive RF circuits, device modeling.

· Wayne Burleson, Professor. Expertise: VLSI Circuit Design (Variation, Noise, Interconnects, Clocking and Power), VLSI Architectures for DSP, Cryptography, Graphics, Embedded Security (RFID, PUF, TRNG, Side-channels, Payment Systems, Transportation, Medical Devices), Adaptive Systems on Chip and VLSI Signal Processing

· Dev V. Gupta, Adjunct Professor. Expertise: Analog CMOS design, Signal Processing, Communication Theory, Broadband Systems.

· Robert W. Jackson, Professor. Expertise: Microwave Integrated Circuits, Integrated Antennas, Microwave Engineering

· Sandip Kundu, Professor. Expertise: VLSI Circuit Design & Test, CAD for VLSI Circuit Design & Test, High Performance Circuit Design, Design of Resilient Computing Systems.

· Andras C. Moritz, CMOS/nanoscale fabrics, Placement, Layout and Routing

· Christopher D. Salthouse, Assistant Professor. Expertise: Analog and Mixed Signal CMOS design, micro-power, biomedical, instrumentation.

· Paul Siqueira, Associate Professor. Expertise: Microwave and Millimeterwave Engineering, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Systems

· Russell Tessier, Associate Professor. Expertise: Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Embedded Systems, Network-on-Chip, On-chip Monitoring, Reconfigurable Computing

Contact Information

Mail Address
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
100 Natural Resources Rd.
201 Marcus Hall
Amherst, MA 01003

Phone
413-545-0962

Fax
413-545-4611

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Last Updated on: 05/30/2011