Advanced Digital VLSI

Design 2
Introduction to LaTeX

9 March 2018
Introduction
• LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to
worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate
on getting the right content. For example, consider this document:
Cartesian closed categories and the price of eggs
Jane Doe
September 1994
Hello world!

• To produce this in most typesetting or word-processing systems, the author

would have to decide what layout to use, so would select (say) 18pt Times
Roman for the title, 12pt Times Italic for the name, and so on. This has two
results: authors wasting their time with designs; and a lot of badly designed
documents!
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Introduction
• LaTeX is based on the idea that it is better to leave document design to
document designers, and to let authors get on with writing documents. So, in
LaTeX you would input this document as:

\documentclass{article} This document is an article

\title{Cartesian closed categories and the price of eggs} This is the title
\author{Jane Doe} This is the author name
\date{September 1994} This is when it was written
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Hello world! The article contains a title, followed by
the text “hello world”
\end{document}

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What you see is what you mean!
• Typesetting journal articles, technical reports, books, (slides)
• Controlling large documents with sections, cross-refs, tables, figures
• Typesetting math
• Bibliographies and indexes
• Inclusion of graphics
• Aliases, glossaries, etc.
• Programming language!
• Output to PDF

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Let’s get some things straight
• TeX was written by Donald E. Knuth after he didn’t like the typesetting of the
second version of “The Art of Computer Programming” in 1976.
• LaTeX = Lamport TeX, as it is a “user friendly interface” to TeX, written by
Leslie Lamport in the early 1980s.
• Pronounced LAH-tekh (like the loch-ness monster)
• TeX = 𝜏𝜀𝜒, which is the greek root for “technique”
• Standard version is “LaTeX2e”
• MiKTex (windows) and MacTeX (OS X) typeset LaTeX
• BibTeX (or Biber) are often used for reference management
• pdfLaTeX often used to output PDF files

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Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages • Many, many add-on packages
• Professional looking • Well-structured text
• Math • Cross platform
• No need to deal with layout of the • Easily versioned (git/svn/diff)
document • No “ghosts” (references, figures,
• Footnotes, references, table of contents, citations, sections, numbering, etc.)
bibliographies – easy as can be! • Easy to find solutions for all problems.
Disadvantages
• “LaTeX does not work well for people who have sold their souls…”
• Tables suck!
• Hard to write unstructured/ disorganized documents.
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Installation
• You’ll need to first install a Tex backend
• On Windows, I recommend to download and install MikTeX
https://miktex.org/download
• For creating LaTeX files, you can use any editor (i.e., vi, emacs, notepad++)
• However, I prefer a nice LaTeX frontend, such as TexStudio
https://www.texstudio.org/
• There is a comprehensive comparison of LaTeX editors on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TeX_editors
• Note that for a web installation of MikTeX, when you use a package for the first
time, you will have to wait for it to download and install.

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Basics
• Whitespace
• All whitespace (inc. several spaces and a line break) are treated as one
“space”
• An empty line is a new paragraph.
• You can also use \\ or \newline to start a new line
• Special characters
• You have to escape (backslash \ or \textbackslash{}) the following characters:
• # ^ { }
• $ - start of math • Word Emphasis:
• % - comment • \underline{text}
• ~ - no line break • \textbf{text}
• \ - escape • \textit{text}
• \emph{text}
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Basics
• LaTeX Commands
• \command[optional parameter]{parameter}
• Comments
• % - until the next line break
• File Structure
• \documentclass[options]{type}
• for example: \documentclass[11pt, twoside, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}
• \usepackage[options]{package name}
• \begin{document}
• \end{document} Okay, then now we can make our
“Hello, World!” LaTeX Doc

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Titles, Chapters, and Sections
• The article class supports:
• The title is defined with:
• \section{...}
• \title{…}
• \subsection{...}
• \author{...}
• \subsubsection{...}
• \date{...}
• \paragraph{...}
• \maketitle
• \subparagraph{...}
• The report or book classes support:
• \chapter{…}
• \appendix Add a star * to generate
• \frontmatter \backmatter unnumbered section headings,
• To create a table of contents: e.g., \section*{acknowledgements}
• \tableofcontents
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Cross References
• To set an anchor in the document:
• \label{labelname}
• Then to refer to the label use:
• \ref{labelname} – this will be replaced by the number of section, figure,
table, equation
• or \pageref{labelname} – this will print the page number of the label

• A footnote is easily inserted with:

• \footnote{This text will appear in the footnote}
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Other common commands
• \include{filename} or \input{filename}
• \include adds a page break, \input does not
• you can limit which “include” commands are executed by sending an
\includeonly{file1, file2} list in the preamble
• Defining an alias:
• \newcommand{name}[num]{definition}
• Then just write \name and it will be replaced by your definition.
• If you specify a num, then you put num arguments and they are used where
#1, #2, etc. are specified in the definition.
• \renewcommand explicitly overwrites an existing command
• The glossaries package is another recommended way to use acronyms.

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Lists
• Bulleted lists:
• \begin{itemize}
• \item first bullet text
• \item second bullet text
• \end{itemize}
• Numbered lists:
• \begin{enumerate}
• \item first bullet text
• \item second bullet text
• \end{enumerate}

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Figures (floats) Placement Specifiers:
List of all the places a float is
allowed to be placed
• Use the graphicx package: h – here (never use this alone!)
t – top of the page
• \usepackage{graphicx}
b – bottom of the page
• A figure is a “floating body” which will be p – a special page with only floats
placed so it doesn’t break across pages. ! – without considering others
• \begin{figure}[placement specifier]
• \includegraphics[key=value]{filename}
• \caption{caption text}
• \label{figure label} label must come key=value pairs:
• \end{figure} after caption! width – specify width
• \listoffigures and \listoftables height – specify height
angle – rotate counterclockwise
will generate these lists. scale – change size
\columnwidth
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Figures examples
• Figures: \begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig/fig1.pdf}

\caption{Some caption.}
\label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}
• Subfigures:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\subfigure[Fig 2a Caption]{\label{fig:fig2a}
\includegraphics[width=0.56\columnwidth]{fig/fig2a.pdf}}
\subfigure[Fig 2b Caption]{\label{fig:fig2b}
\includegraphics[width=0.43\columnwidth]{fig/fig2b.pdf}}

\caption{General Caption.}
\label{fig:fig2}
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Bibliography
• To add a citation in the text:
• \cite{citationref}
• Then, at the end of the paper (where you want the bibliography to appear):
• \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
• \bibliography{.bib file name}
• .bib file:
@article{meinerzhagen2013exploration,
title={Exploration of Sub-{VT} and Near-{VT} {2T} Gain-Cell Memories for
Ultra-Low Power Applications under Technology Scaling},
author={Meinerzhagen, Pascal and Teman, Adam and Giterman, Robert and others}
journal={MDPI JLPEA},
volume={3},
number={2},
pages={54--72},
year={2013},
publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}

• .To compile the bib file with bibtex:

• bibtex texfilename.aux
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Math
• Use the amsmath package
• \usepackage{amsmath}
• To add math inline, enclose it in two dollar signs:
• Some text and $some math$ and some more text.
• For enumerated equations, use the equation environment:
• \begin{equation}
In Math Mode:
• some math • spaces and line breaks do not do
• \label{equation reference} anything
• \end{equation} • No paragraph breaks
• Letters are fomulated as variables
• To get started, copy and paste from MathType ☺
• But you will quickly learn to write math yourself.
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Compiling a .tex file
• Compile:
• latex foo.tex
• This creates a .dvi file. Turn it into a postscript file:
• dvips –Pcmz foo.dvi –o foo.ps
• Alternatively use pdflatex
• pdflatex foo.tex
• This creates a foo.aux file, so run:
• bibtex foo.aux
• This creates a foo.bbl file, so again run:
• pdflatex foo.tex

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Special Characters and Symbols
• Keeping words together (on the same line):
• either use \mbox{word1 word2} or tilde word1~word2
• Quotation Marks:
• Single quotes: ` and ‘
• Double quotes: `` and ‘‘

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Fonts

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Spacing
• Change line spacing
• \linespread{factor}
• Add horizontal and vertical space
• \hspace{length} – space between words
• \vspace{length} - space after paragraph

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EnICS LaTeX Methodologies
Some include files
• Standard packages to load
• \input{\enicsPath/include/enics_packages.tex}
• Predefined Macros
• \input{\enicsPath /include/enics_macros.tex}
• Predefined \newcommand and \newacronyms
• \input{\enicsPath /include/enics_glossary.tex} Make sure
you join this
Git
• But what is \enicsPath ? Repository!
• \input{myconfig.tex}
• But don’t add myconfig.tex to the GIT, so it is local!

% myconfig.tex:
\newcommand{\enicsPath}{<my GIT path>/Enics_common/}
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What kind of “macros” do we use?
• In order to reference figures, tables, etc.:
• Instead of Fig.~\ref{fig:myfigure}
• We can just write \figref{myfigure}
• Always add type to labels:
• E.g.: \label{fig:myfig}, \label{sec:introduction}

\renewcommand{\eqref}[1]{(\ref{#1})}
\newcommand{\secref}[1]{\mbox{Section~\ref{#1}}}
\newcommand{\appref}[1]{\mbox{Appendix~\ref{#1}}}
\newcommand{\chapref}[1]{\mbox{Chapter~\ref{#1}}}
\newcommand{\figref}[1]{\mbox{Figure~\ref{#1}}}
\newcommand{\tblref}[1]{\mbox{Table~\ref{#1}}}
\newcommand{\algref}[1]{\mbox{Algorithm~\ref{#1}}}

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What are “glossaries”?
• A great package used for abbreviating and indexing:
• For example:
• We ran 10K Monte Carlo (MC) simulations…
• Wait, was this the first time we defined “MC”????
• Instead use \gls:
• \newacronym{mc}{MC}{Monte Carlo}
• We ran 10K \gls{mc} simulations
• Lots of options:
• Plural: \glspl{ic}  integrated circuits or ICs.
• Capitalize: \Gls{ic}  Integrated circuit
• Show full acronym again: \acrfull{ic}  Integrated circuit

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How to write units and symbols?
• Use the \siunitx package and the enics_glossary.tex \newcommands:
• \newcommand{\um}{\,\si{\micro\meter}\xspace}
• \newcommand{\umsquared}{\,\si{\micro\meter\squared}\xspace}
• \newcommand{\kbyte}{\,\si{\kilo\byte}\xspace}
• Don’t write X for multiplied by:
• \newcommand{\X}{$\times$\xspace}
• Don’t just write C for Celsius:
• \newcommand{\cel}{$^\circ$C\xspace}
• When writing variable names, don’t italicize the index if it’s not a parameter:
• E.g.: Not VDD, but rather VDD.
• \newcommand{\vdd}{$V_{\text{DD}}$\xspace}

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Bibliographies and Citations Also in the
GIT
• We have a centralized bibliography folder:
• EnICS_common/Bibliography
• There are “fixed” bibliography entries for our publications and important
publications that we often cite.
• If you find a better way to organize this, please suggest it!
• Instead of using the journal/conference name that comes from Google Scholar or
IEEExplore use the file abbreviations_long:
• E.g.: @STRING{IEEE_J_JSSC = "{IEEE} J. Solid-State Circuits"}
• Then in the .bib: booktitle=IEEE_J_JSSC,
• Beware of capitalization in citations:
• To retain capitalization (e.g., SRAM, not sram) use {curly braces}

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The IEEEtran Class
• For IEEE publications, use the IEEEtran Class:
• https://ctan.org/pkg/ieeetran?lang=en

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References
• The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε
http://ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/ctan/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
• Wikipedia (of course)
• Several years of using LaTeX (don’t complain to me – blame Pascal!)

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