parasitic extraction

A comprehensive guide to parasitics, how to perform parasitic extraction and the latest technologies available for this critical task.

Parasitic extraction has to take more account of inductive effects as operating frequencies rise and feature sizes shrink in complex SoCs.

Hierarchical signoff strategies for large SoCs at advanced nodes can be effective if sufficient attention is paid to reflecting the impact of cross-hierarchy parasitics.

FinFET and 3DIC technologies bring with them not just higher performance but an increased need for accurate parasitic analysis.

Parasitic extraction reveals the impact of implementation on the theoretical performance of IC designs.

How to enhance an 'ideal' parastitic extraction strategy to create a full 3D assembly-level parasitic netlist for simulation and circuit analysis.

Extracting finFET parasitics means a shift to 3D models, field solvers for greater accuracy, and MCMM techniques.

How to design with finFETs, including the impact on standard cells, IP, SRAM; the effects of fin quantization; extraction and parasitics; AMS issues and more.

A look at the way in which key tools, in IC implementation, modeling and extraction, and physical verification, are developing in response to the challenges of 20nm design

There's still debate over certain aspects of the 20nm node, but the main challenges are already being addressed. Expect to see foundries and vendors mark their turf at DAC.