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by ptarmigan 1920 days ago
Do you think such an approach could extend to the final verification stage of a large post-extraction chip? My impression is that speedups are most sorely needed in this final sign off phase where the number of nodes explodes with parasitic R's and C's, especially in modern technologies. Simulation times in weeks seem necessary now for sufficient verification accuracy of analog/mixed signal chips.
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Yes, we're looking at it. One of our benchmark cases for this work, will likely be a post-extraction structure from one of the Sky130 chips (not that it wouldn't work in a more moderns process, but the NDA issues become complicated while this is still a research project).