Technical Software Offerings

This is a menu of the current CAD/EDA software offerings from Electronic and Computer Services. Most of these tools are available to all College of Engineering faculty, staff, and students. Because of agreements with our vendors, the usage of these tools is limited to instructional or research purposes only. If you wish to use any of these tools on your workstation at Penn State, please contact Joe Portelli at 863-7580.

cadence

Cadence® Electronic Design Automation Tools (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows XP/Vista)

  • Functional Verification
  • Digital IC Design
  • Custom IC Design
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • Silicon-package-board co-design

Click here for our Penn State Cadence® support pages.

Some products available for download

National Instruments

National Instruments LabVIEW® 8.5 (Windows 2000/XP, Mac, Linux, Solaris)

National Instruments Multisim® 10.0.1 (Windows 2000/XP/Vista)

Click here for our Penn State LabVIEW® support pages

Available for download

Xilinx

Xilinx ISE Design Suite Version 10.1 (Solaris, Windows XP/Vista)

Available for download

Synplicity
Synplify Pro® and HDL Analyst® FPGA Synthesis (Solaris, Windows 2000/XP)
Altera
Altera Quartus® II, Version 4.1 (Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000/XP)
Abaqus
Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (HP-UX, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows) from Simulia

 

Students breadboarding a circuit

Student Design Engineers at Work

Students seen here breadboarding a simple circuit before committing components to final circuit design.

Students at TechDay

Students at TechDay

Students Will Ferry and Jeff DiTeodoro attend Texas Instruments TechDay in New Jersey, helping IDS evaluate new technology.

Electronic & Computer Services (ECS)

ECS is designing for the future.