parasitic extraction product from tanner eda

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Parasitic Extraction

Tanner EDA’s HiPer PX helps you reliably design high-performance

circuits in modern process technologies.


• First EDA solution on Windows

• Development, sales and support of IC design tools since 1988

• 25,000 installed seats worldwide – Global presence

• Expertise in advanced microelectronics research such as MEMS, speech recognition, active pixel imagers and data acquisition systems

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Interconnect Parasitics in Modern Processes

• As process geometries shrink, the impact of interconnect parasitic effects gets larger

• Importance has shifted from vertical to lateral crosstalk capacitance


Traditional Approaches

• Manual estimation on known-critical nets• easy to miss unexpected problems

• Avoidance and mitigation techniques• wasteful of area, time

• Lumped vertical extraction• misses now-dominant lateral crosstalk capacitance


HiPer PX

• Tanner EDA’s parasitic extraction tool• Proven technology

• Interconnect extract engine based on the long-running and influential Space project at TU Delft

• Integrated with L-Edit• RC interconnect models• 2D, 3D, and hybrid extract modes• Frequency based circuit reduction


HiPer PX – 2D and 3D

• 2-D Mode (table interpolation)• 2-D extraction is extremely fast (>1M transistors/hr)• Accurate enough for many designs, and fast enough to

extract huge circuits

• 3-D Mode (boundary element)• Maximum accuracy• Still fast enough to run medium sized circuits (thousands

of transistors)


Extract Early and Often

• HiPer PX extracts both devices and interconnect parasitics in one pass

• No requirement for an LVS pass; extract while you work and catch problems early


Accurate Post-Layout Simulations

• All resistors and capacitors are treated the same• drawn resistors and

capacitors divided into finite elements


Faster Simulations

• Netlist reduction • fastest possible simulations with accuracy guaranteed up

to specified frequency


Flexible

• Analyze just resistance or just capacitance at the push of a button

• Selectively extract parasitics on important nets• Extract a single cell, a clipped out region, or the

whole chip


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