Important
I recommend that you read through every bullet point in this document; if I took the time to write it down here, there's a reason why.
These are my personal notes from taking EECS119 and using Cadence Virtuoso. The way most tutorials show you how to do it is bizarre, and not at all how the software is supposed to be used. I had to figure a lot of this out by trial and error, and wanted to save others the trouble for the future. This obviously doesn't cover everything and I'm still very much a beginner when it comes to using Cadence, but should be helpful for people also just starting out with VLSI design.
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