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Message started by Terence on Oct 6^th, 2009, 10:37pm

Title: RC extraction with floating dummy metal fill
Post by Terence on Oct 6^th, 2009, 10:37pm

Hi,

I would like to study how dummy metal insertion impacts my circuit performance. What extraction tools do you recommend for such RC extraction? AssuraRCX? QRC? or CalibreXRC?

Thanks!

Title: Re: RC extraction with floating dummy metal fill
Post by Riad KACED on Oct 23^rd, 2009, 6:08am

Hi Terence,

Both Calibre and Assura handle the the dummy metal for post layout simulation. You may need to check with your foundry whether it does provide the right files though. I personally recommend Calibre XRC as Calibre is being the signoff tool of most of the foundries, at least for DRC. Again, you better ask your PDK provider or process foundry.

Regards,
Riad.