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Quantus Qrc Extraction of a block

I have completed physical design of a block in innovus. I want to extract rc of that block using quantus .  It will be very helpful if you give step by step procedure and command to run quantus to extract rc of that block.




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Can't Find Quantus QRC toolbar on the Layout Suite

Hi, 

I want my layout verified by Quantus QRC. But, I can't find the tool bar on the option list ( as show in the picture)

I have tried to install EXT182 and configured it with iscape already, and also make some path settings on .bashrc, .cshrc. But, when I re-source .cshrc and run virtuoso again, I just can't find the toolbar. 

If you have some methods, please let me know.

Thanks a lot!

Appreciated

My virtuoso version is: ICADV12.3




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Different Extracted Capacitance Values of the Same MOM Cap Structures Obtained from Quantus QRC Filed Solver

Hello,

 

I am using Virtuoso 6.1.7.

 

I am performing the parasitic extraction of a MOM cap array of 32 caps. I use Quantus QRC and I enable field solver. I select “QRCFS” for field solver type and “High” for field solver accuracy. The unit MOM cap is horizontally and vertically symmetric. The array looks like the sketch below and there are no other structures except the unit caps:

Rationally speaking, the capacitance values of the unit caps should be symmetric with respect to a vertical symmetry axis that is between cap16 and cap17 (shown with dashed red line). For example,

the capacitance of cap1 should be equal to the capacitance of cap32

the capacitance of cap2 should be equal to the capacitance of cap31

etc. as there are no other structures around the caps that might create some asymmetry.

Nevertheless, what I observe is the following after the parasitic extraction:

As it can be seen, the result is not symmetric contrary to what is expected. I should also add that I do not observe this when I perform parasitic extraction with no filed solver.

Why do I get this result? Is it an artifact resulting from the field solver tool (my conclusion was yes but still it must be verified)? If not, how can something like this happen?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

Can